The Message 2009
风声
After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.
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Vocabulary
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| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 错怪 錯怪 | to blame sb wrongly | Xiehouyu |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 轻松 輕鬆 | light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously | Xiehouyu |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 武田 武田 | Takeda (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 李宁 李寧 | Li Ning (1963-), PRC gymnast, winner of three gold medals at Los Angeles 1984 Olympic games | Proper Noun |
| 保定 保定 | Baoding, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province | Proper Noun |
| 唐山 唐山 | Tangshan, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province; China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese) | Proper Noun |
| 空城计 空城計 | the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff | Proper Noun |
| 乐亭 樂亭 | Laoting county in Tangshan, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 西贡 西貢 | Saigon, capital of former South Vietnam; Sai Kung town in New Territories, Hong Kong | Proper Noun |
| 斯里兰卡 斯里蘭卡 | Sri Lanka | Proper Noun |
| 莫尔斯电码 莫爾斯電碼 | Morse code | Proper Noun |
| 曹魏 曹魏 | Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265 | Proper Noun |
| 延安 延安 | Yan'an, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province | Proper Noun |
| 岳阳 岳陽 | Yueyang, prefecture-level city in Hunan Province | Proper Noun |
| 沙河 沙河 | Sand River | Proper Noun |
| 宾夕法尼亚大学 賓夕法尼亞大學 | University of Pennsylvania | Proper Noun |
| 卧龙岗 臥龍崗 | Wollongong, Australia | Proper Noun |
| 日俄战争 日俄戰爭 | the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 长官 長官 | senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; sir (term of address for senior officer) | |
| 尾 尾 | tail, extremity; end, stern | |
| 中将 中將 | lieutenant general; vice admiral; air marshal | |
| 特务 特務 | special assignment (military); special agent; operative; spy | |
| 密电 密電 | coded telegram; secret telegram | |
| 闪开 閃開 | to get out of the way | |
| 反日 反日 | anti-Japan | |
| 屁 屁 | break wind; fart; buttocks | |
| 回事儿 回事兒 | what's the matter | |
| 奸细 奸細 | a spy; a crafty person | |
| 既是 既是 | is both...(and...); since; as; being the case that | |
| 骨 骨 | bone; skeleton; frame, framework | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 暗号 暗號 | secret signal (sign); countersign; password | |
| 庄 莊 | village, hamlet; villa, manor | |
| 节节败退 節節敗退 | to retreat again and again in defeat; to suffer defeat after defeat | |
| 纯正 純正 | pure; unadulterated; (of motives etc) honest | |
| 怀 懷 | bosom, breast; carry in bosom |