A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon 1989
英雄本色3:夕阳之歌
During the Vietnam War, Mark 'Gor' Lee heads to Saigon to bring home his uncle and cousin. However, the task gets dangerous when a well-known criminal tries to help him.
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| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 垃圾 垃圾 | trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 西贡 西貢 | Saigon, capital of former South Vietnam; Sai Kung town in New Territories, Hong Kong | Proper Noun |
| 越共 越共 | Communist Party of Vietnam; Viet Cong | Proper Noun |
| 田中 田中 | Tianzhong Township in Changhua County, Taiwan; Tanaka (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 文化大革命 文化大革命 | Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) | Proper Noun |
| 会安 會安 | Hoi An (in Vietnam) | Proper Noun |
| 路透社 路透社 | Reuters News Agency | Proper Noun |
| 日军 日軍 | Japanese army; Japanese troops | Proper Noun |
| 德航 德航 | Lufthansa (German airline); abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 杰 傑 | hero; heroic, outstanding | |
| 长官 長官 | senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; sir (term of address for senior officer) | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 报应 報應 | (Buddhism) divine retribution; karma | |
| 伯 伯 | variant of | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 失散 失散 | to lose touch with; missing; scattered; separated from | |
| 不简单 不簡單 | not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous | |
| 幸会 幸會 | nice to meet you | |
| 聚散 聚散 | coming together and separating; aggregation and dissipation | |
| 返 返 | return, revert to, restore | |
| 看透 看透 | to understand thoroughly; to see beyond the facade; to see through (sb) | |
| 的士 的士 | taxi (loanword) | |
| 船民 船民 | people who live and make a living on boats | |
| 娜 娜 | elegant, graceful, delicate | |
| 没办法 沒辦法 | there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it | |
| 民航 民航 | civil aviation | |
| 午安 午安 | Good afternoon!; Hello (daytime greeting) | |
| 三轮车 三輪車 | pedicab; tricycle | |
| 坐牢 坐牢 | to be imprisoned | |
| 国货 國貨 | domestically produced goods | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 见怪 見怪 | to mind; to take offense | |
| 辛辛苦苦 辛辛苦苦 | painstakingly; with great trouble | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 上了年纪 上了年紀 | to be getting on in years; to be of the older generation | |
| 无时无刻 無時無刻 | (idiom) (when followed by) at no time; never (Note: therefore means "at no time not...", i.e. "at all times".); (when not followed by) at all times; always | |
| 时局 時局 | current political situation | |
| 门户 門戶 | door; strategic gateway; portal; faction; sect; family status; family; web portal; (old) brothel | |
| 观察家 觀察家 | observer (esp. one who analyzes social or political affairs) | |
| 严明 嚴明 | strict and impartial; firm | |
| 叫醒 叫醒 | to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse | |
| 郑 鄭 | the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng, a county-level city in Henan; surname Zheng; abbr. for Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 提款 提款 | to withdraw money; to take money out of the bank | |
| 粒子 粒子 | (elementary) particle; grain |