Seven Swords 2005
七剑
In the middle of the 17th century, the Manchus conquered China and founded the Ching dynasty. Due to widespread uprisings against the new rulers, the study and practice of traditional martial arts is forbidden and punishable by death. The unscrupulous leader of a troop of mercenaries takes advantage of this situation to make a fortune with the bounty on his head.
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| 放虎归山 放虎歸山 | 放: put, release, free, liberate · 虎: tiger; brave, fierce; surname · 归: return; return to, revert to · 山: mountain, hill, peak | Idiom |
| 斩草除根 斬草除根 | to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely | Idiom |
| 光明磊落 光明磊落 | open and candid (idiom); straightforward and upright | Idiom |
| 素不相识 素不相識 | to be total strangers (idiom) | Idiom |
| 后顾之忧 後顧之憂 | fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything" | Idiom |
| 冤枉 冤枉 | to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly; injustice; wronged; not worthwhile | Xiehouyu |
| 逗 逗 | to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn; brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 读) | Colloquialism |
| 扯 扯 | to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey | Colloquialism |
| 娘 娘 | mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate | Colloquialism |
| 家伙 傢伙 | household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon | Colloquialism |
| 走漏 走漏 | to leak (information, secrets etc); to smuggle and evade tax; to suffer shrinkage (partial loss of goods due to theft etc) | |
| 出土 出土 | to dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed; to come up out of the ground | |
| 正气 正氣 | healthy atmosphere; moral spirit; unyielding integrity; probity; (TCM) vital energy (resistance to diseases) | |
| 玄机 玄機 | profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism); mysterious principles | |
| 倔 倔 | used in 倔强 | |
| 难说 難說 | hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict); cannot bring oneself to say it | |
| 存心 存心 | deliberately | |
| 眼色 眼色 | signal made with one's eyes; meaningful glance | |
| 屯 屯 | to station (soldiers); to store up; village | |
| 有序 有序 | regular; orderly; successive; in order | |
| 祖宗 祖宗 | ancestor; forebear | |
| 药方 藥方 | prescription | |
| 受罪 受罪 | to endure; to suffer; hardships; torments; a hard time; a nuisance | |
| 仇人 仇人 | foe; one's personal enemy | |
| 公证 公證 | notarization; notarized; acknowledgement | |
| 下山 下山 | to go down a hill; (of the sun or moon) to set | |
| 过问 過問 | to show an interest in; to get involved with | |
| 记号 記號 | mark; symbol; notation; seal | |
| 小溪 小溪 | brook; streamlet | |
| 糟蹋 糟蹋 | to waste; to defile; to abuse; to insult; to defile; to trample on; to wreck; also pr. [zāo ta] | |
| 交情 交情 | friendship; friendly relations | |
| 瓦解 瓦解 | to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble; to disrupt; to break up | |
| 曰 曰 | to speak; to say | |
| 抠 摳 | to dig out; to pick out (with one's fingers); to carve; to cut; to study meticulously; to lift one's clothes; stingy; miserly | |
| 提防 提防 | to guard against; to be vigilant; watch you don't (slip); Taiwan pr. [tí fáng] | |
| 土匪 土匪 | bandit | |
| 秃 禿 | bald; blunt | |
| 冒犯 冒犯 | to offend | |
| 上头 上頭 | (of alcohol) to go to one's head; (old) (of a bride-to-be) to bind one's hair into a bun; (of a prostitute) to receive a patron for the first time | |
| 拖累 拖累 | to encumber; to be a burden on; to implicate | |
| 当众 當眾 | in public; in front of everybody | |
| 锋利 鋒利 | sharp (e.g. knife blade); incisive; to the point | |
| 执着 執著 | to be strongly attached to; to be dedicated; to cling to; (Buddhism) attachment | |
| 哨 哨 | a whistle; sentry | |
| 藏身 藏身 | to hide; to go into hiding; to take refuge | |
| 别看 別看 | don't be fooled by the fact that | |
| 取暖 取暖 | to warm oneself (by a fire etc) | |
| 要害 要害 | vital part; (fig.) key point; crucial | |
| 试探 試探 | to sound out; to probe; to feel out; to try out | |
| 赎 贖 | to redeem; to ransom |