The Myth 2005
神话
When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.
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Vocabulary
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| 举报 舉報 | to report (malefactors to the police); to denounce | |
| 人性 人性 | human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes | |
| 使命 使命 | mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling | |
| 隧道 隧道 | tunnel | |
| 防御 防禦 | defense; to defend | |
| 距 距 | at a distance of; distance; to be apart | |
| 飘 飄 | to float | |
| 无论如何 無論如何 | whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means | |
| 灵感 靈感 | inspiration; insight; a burst of creativity in scientific or artistic endeavor | |
| 驾 駕 | to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞) | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 亦 亦 | also | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 竟 竟 | unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 码 碼 | weight; number; code; to pile; to stack; classifier for length or distance (yard), happenings etc | |
| 率 率 | rate; frequency | |
| 释放 釋放 | to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 生物 生物 | organism; living creature; life form; biological | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 掩人耳目 掩人耳目 | to fool people (idiom); to pull the wool over people's eyes | Idiom |
| 脚踏实地 腳踏實地 | to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy; steady and serious character | Idiom |
| 墨守成规 墨守成規 | hidebound by convention (idiom) | Idiom |
| 与世隔绝 與世隔絕 | to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom) | Idiom |
| 敬酒不吃吃罚酒 敬酒不吃吃罰酒 | lit. to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit (idiom); fig. to turn down a request only to be forced later to comply with it under pressure | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 灵药 靈藥 | legendary magic potion of immortals; panacea; fig. wonder solution to a problem | |
| 盗墓 盜墓 | to rob a tomb | |
| 灵柩 靈柩 | coffin containing a corpse | |
| 飘浮 飄浮 | to float; to hover; also written 漂浮 | |
| 宝剑 寶劍 | (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one) | |
| 仙丹 仙丹 | elixir of immortality | |
| 军情 軍情 | military situation; military intelligence | |
| 老朽 老朽 | decrepit and behind the times; old; useless; (humble) I; me (used by the elderly) | |
| 誓死 誓死 | to pledge one's life | |
| 抗命 抗命 | against orders; to disobey; to refuse to accept orders | |
| 弓箭手 弓箭手 | archer | |
| 圣旨 聖旨 | imperial edict |