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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| 顺 順 | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 公主 公主 | princess | |
| 形 形 | to appear; to look; form; shape | |
| 露 露 | to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose | |
| 绝 絕 | to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means | |
| 至于 至於 | as for; as to; to go so far as to | |
| 托 托 | to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 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 | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 觉 覺 | a nap; a sleep | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 遗憾 遺憾 | regret; to regret; to be sorry that | |
| 学会 學會 | to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 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 | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 攻击 攻擊 | to attack; to accuse; to charge; an attack (terrorist or military) | |
| 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 | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 利 利 | sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit | |
| 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 | |
| 原 原 | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source | |
| 逼 偪 | variant of 逼; to compel; to pressure | |
| 死亡 死亡 | to die; death | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 作 作 | to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works | |
| 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 | |
| 于 於 | (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 | |
| 支离破碎 支離破碎 | scattered and smashed (idiom) | Idiom |
| 所向披靡 所向披靡 | (idiom) to sweep everything before one; to be invincible | Idiom |
| 货真价实 貨真價實 | lit. genuine goods at fair prices (idiom); fig. genuine; real; true | Idiom |
| 背信弃义 背信棄義 | breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy | Idiom |
| 混蛋 混蛋 | scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch | Xiehouyu |