The Assassin 2015
刺客聂隐娘
9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.
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Vocabulary
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| 战俘 戰俘 | prisoner of war | |
| 年幼 年幼 | young; underage | |
| 忧 憂 | sad, grieved; grief, melancholy | |
| 年前 年前 | by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year | |
| 胆小 膽小 | cowardice; timid | |
| 面貌 面貌 | face; features; appearance; look | |
| 辈 輩 | lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people | |
| 动员 動員 | to mobilize; mobilization | |
| 胆 膽 | gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) | |
| 转向 轉向 | to change direction; fig. to change one's stance | |
| 势力 勢力 | power; influence; a force (military, political etc) | |
| 献 獻 | to offer; to present; to dedicate; to donate; to show; to put on display; worthy person (old) | |
| 劳动 勞動 | work; toil; physical labor | |
| 继承 繼承 | to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc) | |
| 目光 目光 | gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look; (lit. and fig.) sight; vision | |
| 倒是 倒是 | contrary to what one might expect; actually; contrariwise; why don't you | |
| 返回 返回 | to return to; to come (or go) back | |
| 如同 如同 | like; as | |
| 匹 匹 | mate; one of a pair | |
| 期望 期望 | to have expectations; to earnestly hope; expectation; hope | |
| 全都 全都 | all; without exception | |
| 回报 回報 | (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate | |
| 厅 廳 | (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department | |
| 乘 乘 | to ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed | |
| 当年 當年 | in those days; then; in those years; during that time | |
| 矛盾 矛盾 | contradiction; conflicting views; contradictory | |
| 青 青 | abbr. for 海, Qinghai Province | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 毕竟 畢竟 | after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis | |
| 礼 禮 | surname Li; abbr. for 礼记, Classic of Rites | |
| 冒 冐 | to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover | |
| 碎 碎 | (transitive or intransitive verb) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered; garrulous | |
| 狂 狂 | mad; wild; violent | |
| 毒 毒 | poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics | |
| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 难以 難以 | hard to (predict, imagine etc) | |
| 舞 舞 | to dance; to wield; to brandish | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 尽管 儘管 | despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 临清 臨清 | Linqing, county-level city in Liaocheng, Shandong | Proper Noun |
| 德州 德州 | Dezhou, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province; abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 临城 臨城 | Lincheng county in Xingtai, Hebei | Proper Noun |