The Silent War 2012
听风者
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 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 | |
| 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}) | |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 这年头 這年頭 | (coll.) nowadays | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 重庆 重慶 | Chongqing municipality | Proper Noun |
| 国民党 國民黨 | Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT); Nationalist Party | Proper Noun |
| 伦敦 倫敦 | London, capital of United Kingdom | Proper Noun |
| 中办 中辦 | General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP | Proper Noun |
| 小米 小米 | Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010 | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 喝酒 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 掉下 掉下 | to drop down; to fall | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 手气 手氣 | luck (in gambling) | |
| 数数 數數 | to count; to reckon | |
| 酒会 酒會 | drinking party; wine reception | |
| 给面子 給面子 | to show deference or praise publicly | |
| 船队 船隊 | fleet (of ships) | |
| 信道 信道 | (telecommunications) channel; (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them | |
| 改过 改過 | to correct one's errors; to mend one's ways | |
| 小白脸 小白臉 | attractive young man (usually derog.); pretty boy; gigolo |