The Flowers of War 2011
金陵十三钗
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
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Vocabulary
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| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 二流子 二流子 | loafer; idler; bum | Xiehouyu |
| 头一回 頭一回 | the first time; for the first time | Xiehouyu |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 行不通 行不通 | won't work; will get (you) nowhere | Xiehouyu |
| 没完没了 沒完沒了 | without end; incessantly; on and on | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 约翰 約翰 | John (name); Johan (name); Johann (name) | Proper Noun |
| 秦淮河 秦淮河 | Qinhuai River, a tributary of the Yangtze that flows through central Nanjing | Proper Noun |
| 加藤 加藤 | Katō (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 上汽 上汽 | abbr. for 上海汽車工業集團|上海汽车工业集团, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 英 英 | petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English | |
| 旅 旅 | trip, journey; travel; traveler | |
| 孩子们 孩子們 | children | |
| 所有人 所有人 | everyone; owner | |
| 斯 斯 | this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 妓院 妓院 | brothel; whorehouse | |
| 喝酒 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) | |
| 分队 分隊 | military platoon or squad | |
| 船票 船票 | ship ticket | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 数不过来 數不過來 | can't manage to count; too many to count | |
| 一遍 一遍 | one time (all the way through); once through | |
| 长成 長成 | to grow up | |
| 狗日 狗日 | lit. fucked or spawned by a dog; contemptible; lousy, fucking |