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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| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 凶手 兇手 | murderer; assassin | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 祖国 祖國 | motherland | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 灭 滅 | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown | |
| 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 | |
| 钻 鑽 | to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain | |
| 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 | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 偏 偏 | to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations | |
| 止 止 | to stop; to prohibit; until; only | |
| 族 族 | race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 公主 公主 | princess | |
| 托 託 | to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee | |
| 足 足 | excessive | |
| 将军 將軍 | general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 母 母 | mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 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 | |
| 原 原 | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 另 另 | other; another; separate; separately | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 于 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 寡不敌众 寡不敵眾 | the few are no match for the many; heavily outnumbered; facing impossible odds (idiom) | Idiom |
| 杂种 雜種 | hybrid; mixed breed; bastard; son of a bitch | Xiehouyu |
| 臣 臣 | minister, statesman, official | |
| 燕 燕 | swallow (bird); comfort, enjoy | |
| 侯 侯 | marquis, lord; target in archery | |
| 樊 樊 | a railing; a fence an enclosed place |