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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| 护士 護士 | nurse | |
| 迟到 遲到 | to arrive late | |
| 密 密 | secret; confidential; close; thick; dense | |
| 平均 平均 | average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions | |
| 运气 運氣 | luck (good or bad) | |
| 密码 密碼 | cipher; secret code; password; PIN | |
| 摇 搖 | to shake; to rock; to row; to crank | |
| 依靠 依靠 | to rely on sth (for support etc); to depend on | |
| 地下 地下 | underground; subterranean; covert | |
| 肚子 肚子 | belly; abdomen; stomach | |
| 工程 工程 | engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking | |
| 似的 似的 | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] | |
| 兵 兵 | soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike | |
| 背景 背景 | background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer | |
| 批 批 | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) | |
| 来源 來源 | source (of information etc); origin | |
| 追求 追求 | to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 夫人 夫人 | lady; madam; Mrs. | |
| 转移 轉移 | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize | |
| 答案 答案 | answer; solution | |
| 躺 躺 | to recline; to lie down | |
| 编 編 | to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 怀疑 懷疑 | to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that | |
| 敌人 敵人 | enemy | |
| 优秀 優秀 | outstanding; excellent | |
| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity | |
| 教授 教授 | professor; to instruct; to lecture on | |
| 想象 想象 | to imagine; to envision; imagination | |
| 圈 圈 | circle; ring; loop; classifier for loops, orbits, laps of race etc; to surround; to circle | |
| 测试 測試 | to test (machinery etc); to test (a person's skill in a particular area); a test; (computing) beta (version of software) | |
| 牌 牌 | mahjong tile; playing card; game pieces; signboard; plate; tablet; medal | |
| 否则 否則 | otherwise; if not; or (else) | |
| 身份 身份 | identity; aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is – mayor, father, permanent resident etc); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以…份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank | |
| 醒 醒 | to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to | |
| 倍 倍 | (two, three etc) -fold; times (multiplier); double; to increase or multiply | |
| 嗯 嗯 | (a groaning sound) | |
| 竟然 竟然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to | |
| 翻 翻 | to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross | |
| 丈夫 丈夫 | husband | |
| 盘 盤 | plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess | |
| 冲 沖 | (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with | |
| 伤害 傷害 | to injure; to harm | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 位置 位置 | position; place; seat |