The Emperor's Shadow 1996
秦颂
Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
Vocabulary
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| 便是 便是 | (emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated); precisely; exactly; even; if; just like; in the same way as | |
| 追究 追究 | to investigate; to look into | |
| 恰恰 恰恰 | exactly; just; precisely | |
| 墓 墓 | grave; tomb; mausoleum | |
| 捉 捉 | to clutch; to grab; to capture | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 意愿 意願 | aspiration; wish (for); desire | |
| 一同 一同 | together | |
| 用心 用心 | motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful | |
| 歌词 歌詞 | song lyric; lyrics | |
| 接收 接收 | reception (of transmitted signal); to receive; to accept; to admit; to take over (e.g. a factory); to expropriate | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 深深 深深 | deep; profound | |
| 皇帝 皇帝 | emperor | |
| 赌博 賭博 | to gamble | |
| 凶手 兇手 | murderer; assassin | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 箭 箭 | arrow | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 此次 此次 | this time | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 从不 從不 | never | |
| 名义 名義 | name; titular; nominal; in name; ostensible purpose | |
| 战场 戰場 | battlefield | |
| 足以 足以 | sufficient to...; so much so that; so that | |
| 跨 跨 | to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span | |
| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 消灭 消滅 | to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory) | |
| 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 | |
| 罢了 罷了 | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) | |
| 协助 協助 | to provide assistance; to aid | |
| 王子 王子 | prince; son of a king | |
| 作战 作戰 | combat; to fight | |
| 国王 國王 | king | |
| 判 判 | to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; clearly distinguishable | |
| 智慧 智慧 | wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 全力 全力 | with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support) | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 止 止 | to stop; to prohibit; until; only | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 贡献 貢獻 | to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution | |
| 族 族 | race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) |