Swordsman 1990
笑傲江湖
A kung-fu manual known as the Sacred Scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.
Vocabulary
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| 浮 浮 | to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus | |
| 扑 撲 | to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over | |
| 泥 泥 | mud; clay; paste; pulp | |
| 铺 鋪 | to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker | |
| 从没 從沒 | never (in the past); never did | |
| 老鼠 老鼠 | rat; mouse | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! | |
| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 井 井 | a well; neat; orderly | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 夺 奪 | to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 通道 通道 | Tongdao Dong autonomous county in Huaihua 怀化, Hunan | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 档 檔 | official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 野 埜 | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral | |
| 顺 順 | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 透露 透露 | to leak out; to divulge; to reveal | |
| 负 負 | to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) | |
| 权力 權力 | power; authority | |
| 塞 塞 | Serbia; Serbian; abbr. for 塞尔维亚 | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 解 解 | to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection | |
| 爆炸 爆炸 | explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 借刀杀人 借刀殺人 | to lend sb a knife to kill sb; to get sb else to do one's dirty work; to attack using the strength of another (idiom) | Idiom |
| 调虎离山 調虎離山 | to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom); to lure an enemy away from his territory | Idiom |
| 歌舞升平 歌舞昇平 | lit. to celebrate peace with songs and dance (idiom); fig. to make a show of happiness and prosperity | Idiom |
| 手无寸铁 手無寸鐵 | lit. not an inch of steel (idiom); unarmed and defenseless | Idiom |
| 死里逃生 死裡逃生 | mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape; to survive by the skin of one's teeth | Idiom |