A Better Tomorrow 2018
英雄本色2018
A former smuggler attempts to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.
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Vocabulary
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| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 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 | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 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}) | |
| 四海为家 四海為家 | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom); to feel at home anywhere; to roam about unconstrained; to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | Idiom |
| 坏蛋 壞蛋 | bad egg; scoundrel; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 改行 改行 | to change profession | Xiehouyu |
| 老一套 老一套 | the same old stuff | Xiehouyu |
| 玩完 玩完 | (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | 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 |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 中华人民共和国 中華人民共和國 | People's Republic of China | Proper Noun |
| 道里 道裡 | Daoli, a district of Harbin in Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 别提了 別提了 | say no more; don't bring it up; drop the subject | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 出海 出海 | to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets | |
| 举起 舉起 | to heave; to lift; to raise up; to uphold | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 急事 急事 | urgent matter | |
| 上船 上船 | to get on the boat | |
| 让开 讓開 | to get out of the way; to step aside | |
| 警方 警方 | police | |
| 片儿 片兒 | sheet; thin film | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 明知 明知 | to be fully aware of; to know perfectly well | |
| 带上 帶上 | to take along with one | |
| 小意思 小意思 | small token; mere trifle (used of one's gifts) | |
| 好意思 好意思 | to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question) | |
| 身手 身手 | skill; talent; agility | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 段子 段子 | item of storytelling or performed dialogue (folk arts); sketch | |
| 够意思 夠意思 | wonderful; great; delightful; very kind; generous | |
| 开船 開船 | to set sail | |
| 在座 在座 | to be present | |
| 风生水起 風生水起 | lit. a breeze springs up and creates waves on the water (idiom); fig. flourishing; thriving; prosperous | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 一遍 一遍 | one time (all the way through); once through | |
| 弄坏 弄壞 | to ruin; to spoil; to break |