The Great Magician 2011
大魔术师
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
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Vocabulary
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| 联手 聯手 | lit. to join hands; to act together | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 不至于 不至於 | unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 纠纷 糾紛 | dispute | |
| 亲眼 親眼 | with one's own eyes; personally | |
| 灵活 靈活 | flexible; nimble; agile | |
| 墓 墓 | grave; tomb; mausoleum | |
| 舌头 舌頭 | tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information | |
| 杂 雜 | mixed; miscellaneous; various; to mix | |
| 派出 派出 | to send; to dispatch | |
| 认同 認同 | to approve of; to endorse; to acknowledge; to recognize; to identify oneself with | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 查出 查出 | to find out; to discover | |
| 会长 會長 | president of a club, committee etc | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 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 | |
| 吞 吞 | to swallow; to take | |
| 皇帝 皇帝 | emperor | |
| 残酷 殘酷 | cruel; cruelty | |
| 哲学 哲學 | philosophy | |
| 阴谋 陰謀 | to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot | |
| 扭 扭 | to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips | |
| 箭 箭 | arrow | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 捐 捐 | to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy | |
| 节奏 節奏 | rhythm; tempo; musical pulse; cadence; beat | |
| 战场 戰場 | battlefield | |
| 凶 兇 | terrible; fearful | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 妙 妙 | clever; wonderful | |
| 场景 場景 | scene; scenario; situation; setting | |
| 街头 街頭 | street | |
| 犬 犬 | dog; Kangxi radical 94 | |
| 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! | |
| 机关 機關 | mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick | |
| 刮 刮 | to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 主角 主角 | leading role; lead; protagonist | |
| 协助 協助 | to provide assistance; to aid | |
| 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 | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 炸弹 炸彈 | bomb |