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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| 烫 燙 | to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot | |
| 有意 有意 | to intend; intentionally; interested in | |
| 敬 敬 | (bound form) respectful; to respect; to offer politely | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 导弹 導彈 | (guided) missile | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 完毕 完畢 | to finish; to end; to complete | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 跟踪 跟蹤 | to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking | |
| 情报 情報 | information; intelligence | |
| 码 碼 | weight; number; code; to pile; to stack; classifier for length or distance (yard), happenings etc | |
| 真心 真心 | sincere; heartfelt | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 清一色 清一色 | (mahjong) flush; a complete hand where all tiles are of the same suit; (fig.) uniformly; each and every one | Idiom |
| 求之不得 求之不得 | lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for | Idiom |
| 拖泥带水 拖泥帶水 | (idiom) muddy and wet; (idiom) (of speech, writing etc) slovenly; sloppy; (of actions) indecisive | Idiom |
| 以权谋私 以權謀私 | to use one's position for personal gain (idiom) | Idiom |
| 眼不见为净 眼不見為淨 | what remains unseen is deemed to be clean; what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom) | Idiom |
| 以弱胜强 以弱勝強 | using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom); to win from a position of weakness | Idiom |
| 干净利索 乾淨利索 | neat and tidy; clean and efficient; deftly done | Xiehouyu |
| 有眼无珠 有眼無珠 | (idiom) blind as a bat (figuratively); unaware of who (or what) one is dealing with; to fail to recognize what sb a bit more perceptive would | Xiehouyu |
| 不近人情 不近人情 | (idiom) not amenable to reason; unreasonable | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 闭上 閉上 | to close; to shut up | |
| 破译 破譯 | to decipher; to decode | |
| 瞎子 瞎子 | blind person | |
| 干爹 乾爹 | adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
| 截获 截獲 | to intercept; to cut off and capture | |
| 麻雀 麻雀 | sparrow; (dialect) mahjong | |
| 侦听 偵聽 | to eavesdrop; to tap (telephone conversations); to intercept and investigate | |
| 砍死 砍死 | to hack to death; to kill with an ax | |
| 睁开 睜開 | to open (one's eyes) |