The Emperor and the Assassin 1998
荆轲刺秦王
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
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Vocabulary
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| 男女 男女 | male-female; male and female | |
| 败 敗 | to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither | |
| 棵 棵 | classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc | |
| 反而 反而 | on the contrary; instead | |
| 县 縣 | county | |
| 叔叔 叔叔 | father's younger brother; uncle; Taiwan pr. [shú shu] | |
| 宽 寬 | wide; broad; loose; relaxed; lenient | |
| 夫妻 夫妻 | husband and wife; married couple | |
| 统一 統一 | to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated | |
| 对付 對付 | to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) | |
| 散 㪚 | scattered; loose; to come loose; to fall apart; leisurely; powdered medicine | |
| 睡着 睡著 | to fall asleep | |
| 降 降 | to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend | |
| 引 引 | to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters | |
| 肚子 肚子 | belly; abdomen; stomach | |
| 脑袋 腦袋 | head; skull; brains; mental capability | |
| 黄金 黃金 | gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time) | |
| 刺 刺 | (onom.) whoosh | |
| 似的 似的 | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] | |
| 牙 牙 | tooth; ivory | |
| 如今 如今 | nowadays; now | |
| 万一 萬一 | just in case; if by any chance; contingency | |
| 兵 兵 | soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 夫人 夫人 | lady; madam; Mrs. | |
| 盖 蓋 | lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build | |
| 躺 躺 | to recline; to lie down | |
| 编 編 | to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 儿童 兒童 | child | |
| 既然 既然 | since; as; this being the case | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 秘密 秘密 | secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret | |
| 土地 土地 | land; soil; territory | |
| 落 落 | to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind | |
| 竟然 竟然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 反 反 | contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system | |
| 战争 戰爭 | war; conflict | |
| 或许 或許 | perhaps; maybe | |
| 轮 輪 | wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 应 應 | to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shall | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 定 定 | to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to order |