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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Vocabulary
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| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 赶尽杀绝 趕盡殺絕 | to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless | Idiom |
| 引狼入室 引狼入室 | lit. to show the wolf into the house (idiom); fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble | Idiom |
| 吞吞吐吐 吞吞吐吐 | to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth; to speak and break off, then start again; to hold sth back | Idiom |
| 不打不相识 不打不相識 | lit. don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship; no discord, no concord | Idiom |
| 无牵无挂 無牽無掛 | to have no cares; to be carefree | Idiom |
| 千锤百炼 千錘百鍊 | after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom); the vicissitudes of life | Idiom |
| 来者不善 來者不善 | 来: come, coming; return, returning · 者: that which; he who; those who · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 善: good, virtuous, charitable, kind | Xiehouyu |
| 命根子 命根子 | lifeblood; the thing that one cherishes most in life; (coll.) family jewels (male genitals) | Xiehouyu |
| 拍马屁 拍馬屁 | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 龟孙子 龜孫子 | (coll.) son of a bitch; bastard | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 恩公 恩公 | benefactor | |
| 密探 密探 | secret agent; detective; covert investigator | |
| 马贼 馬賊 | horse thief; (old) group of horse-mounted bandits | |
| 吊死 吊死 | death by hanging; to hang oneself | |
| 报恩 報恩 | to pay a debt of gratitude; to repay a kindness | |
| 死尸 死屍 | corpse; dead body | |
| 流形 流形 | manifold (math.) | |
| 顶罪 頂罪 | to take the blame for sb else; to compensate for one's crime; to get charges dropped (by paying money etc) | |
| 大侠 大俠 | knight; swordsman; noble warrior; chivalrous hero | |
| 剑客 劍客 | swordsman | |
| 撤走 撤走 | to retire; to remove; to withdraw; to evacuate | |
| 缓兵之计 緩兵之計 | delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite | |
| 探子 探子 | intelligence gatherer; spy; detective; scout; sound (medical instrument); long and narrow probing and sampling utensil | |
| 仅供 僅供 | only for | |
| 请勿 請勿 | please don't | |
| 雪崩 雪崩 | avalanche | |
| 飞奔 飛奔 | to dash (run fast); to rush; to dart | |
| 从宽发落 從寬發落 | 从: from, by, since, whence, through · 宽: broad, wide; spacious, vast · 发: issue, dispatch, send out; hair · 落: fall, drop; net income, surplus | |
| 绝了 絕了 | (slang) awesome; dope | |
| 贪心 貪心 | greedy | |
| 眼珠子 眼珠子 | eyeball; fig. the apple of one's eye (i.e. favorite person) | |
| 大狱 大獄 | jail; prison | |
| 奸计 奸計 | evil plan; evil schemes | |
| 审问 審問 | to interrogate; to examine; to question | |
| 恩仇 恩仇 | debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge | |
| 作怪 作怪 | (of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes; to make mischief; odd; to misbehave (euphemism for having sex) | |
| 重犯 重犯 | serious criminal; felon |