A Man Called Hero 1999
中华英雄
After Hero Hua marries Jade and leaves her in China, he goes to America to work as a servant and rebels against cruel labour conditions. Jade soon joins him in New York, where they build a family.
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Vocabulary
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| 照相机 照相機 | camera | |
| 打听 打聽 | to ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around | |
| 大夫 大夫 | senior official (in imperial China) | |
| 干吗 幹嗎 | see 干嘛 | |
| 本事 本事 | source material; original story | |
| 亲人 親人 | one's close relatives | |
| 不安 不安 | unpeaceful; unstable; uneasy; disturbed; restless; worried | |
| 好奇 好奇 | inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity | |
| 功夫 功夫 | skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort | |
| 石头 石頭 | stone | |
| 展开 展開 | to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out | |
| 团结 團結 | to unite; unity; solidarity; united | |
| 始终 始終 | from beginning to end; all along | |
| 深入 深入 | to penetrate deeply; thorough | |
| 愿望 願望 | desire; wish | |
| 赶到 趕到 | to hurry (to some place) | |
| 吵 吵 | to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise | |
| 赶快 趕快 | quickly; at once | |
| 古 古 | ancient; old; paleo- | |
| 实力 實力 | strength | |
| 土 土 | earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 尽量 儘量 | as much as possible; to the greatest extent | |
| 命运 命運 | fate; destiny | |
| 自从 自從 | since (a time); ever since | |
| 形象 形象 | image; form; figure; visualization; vivid | |
| 赶 趕 | to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time) | |
| 印象 印象 | impression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory | |
| 互相 互相 | each other; mutually; mutual | |
| 前面 前面 | ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qián mian] | |
| 接近 接近 | to approach; to get close to | |
| 足够 足夠 | enough; sufficient | |
| 奇怪 奇怪 | strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled | |
| 停止 停止 | to stop; to halt; to cease | |
| 保 保 | Bulgaria; Bulgarian; abbr. for 保加利亚 | |
| 猪 豬 | hog; pig; swine | |
| 配 配 | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate | |
| 龙 龍 | dragon; imperial | |
| 害怕 害怕 | to be afraid; to be scared | |
| 消失 消失 | to disappear; to fade away | |
| 麻烦 麻煩 | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble | |
| 姑娘 姑娘 | girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) | |
| 不仅 不僅 | not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...) | |
| 年代 年代 | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period | |
| 系 係 | to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) | |
| 室 室 | room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 传 傳 | to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity) | |
| 直到 直到 | until | |
| 感受 感受 | to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience | |
| 刀 刀 | surname Dao |