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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| 难免 難免 | hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably | |
| 纷纷 紛紛 | one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell | |
| 圆满 圓滿 | satisfactory; consummate; perfect | |
| 梦见 夢見 | to dream about (sth or sb); to see in a dream | |
| 推迟 推遲 | to postpone; to put off; to defer | |
| 记载 記載 | to write down; to record; written account | |
| 顺序 順序 | sequence; order | |
| 途中 途中 | en route | |
| 征服 征服 | to conquer; to subdue; to vanquish | |
| 影子 影子 | shadow; reflection; (fig.) hint; indication; influence | |
| 穿上 穿上 | to put on (clothes etc) | |
| 孙子 孫子 | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书 | |
| 骨头 骨頭 | bone; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gú tou] | |
| 诚实 誠實 | honest | |
| 打败 打敗 | to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated | |
| 力气 力氣 | strength | |
| 说不定 說不定 | can't say for sure; maybe | |
| 极其 極其 | extremely | |
| 新娘 新娘 | bride | |
| 收回 收回 | to regain; to retake; to take back; to withdraw; to revoke | |
| 多次 多次 | many times; repeatedly | |
| 尺 尺 | one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺谱 | |
| 多年 多年 | many years; for many years; longstanding | |
| 粗 粗 | coarse; rough; thick (for cylindrical objects); unfinished; vulgar; rude; crude | |
| 厚 厚 | thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress | |
| 细 細 | thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft; fine; delicate; trifling; (of a sound) quiet; frugal | |
| 此外 此外 | besides; in addition; moreover; furthermore | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss | |
| 独自 獨自 | alone | |
| 战胜 戰勝 | to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount | |
| 帽子 帽子 | hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name | |
| 摆脱 擺脫 | to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself | |
| 统一 統一 | to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated | |
| 含 含 | to keep in the mouth; to contain | |
| 聚 聚 | to congregate; to assemble; to mass; to gather together; to amass; to polymerize | |
| 无数 無數 | countless; numberless; innumerable | |
| 作出 作出 | to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract | |
| 降 降 | to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend | |
| 遇 遇 | to meet; to encounter; to treat; to receive; opportunity; chance | |
| 守 守 | to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining | |
| 刺 刺 | (onom.) whoosh | |
| 迅速 迅速 | rapid; speedy; fast | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 户 戶 | a household; door; family | |
| 利益 利益 | benefit; (in sb's) interest | |
| 失望 失望 | disappointed; to lose hope; to despair |