A True Mob Story 1998
龙在江湖
A low level gangster in Hong Kong gains new respect after saving a boss's life in a gang fight. Despite his wife's death in this attack, he appears to be moving up in the Triad family until he discovers the other bosses are not looking out for him when he is double crossed and the gangster he previously hospitalized in the gang fight comes back for revenge.
Vocabulary
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| 头痛 頭痛 | to have a headache | Xiehouyu |
| 强人所难 強人所難 | to force someone to do something | Xiehouyu |
| 乱来 亂來 | to act recklessly; to mess around | Xiehouyu |
| 毛病 毛病 | fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 金刚 金剛 | King Kong | Proper Noun |
| 红酒 紅酒 | red wine | |
| 叔 叔 | uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
| 去死 去死 | go to hell!; drop dead! | |
| 叶 葉 | to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf | |
| 梁 梁 | bridge; beam; rafters; surname | |
| 打死 打死 | to kill; to beat to death | |
| 到时候 到時候 | when the moment comes; at that time | |
| 监 監 | supervise, control, direct | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 罪名 罪名 | charge; accusation; stigma; bad name; stained reputation | |
| 谋杀 謀殺 | to murder; to assassinate; intentional homicide | |
| 沙 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 伤人 傷人 | to injure sb | |
| 有种 有種 | to have guts; to have courage; to be brave | |
| 别管 別管 | no matter (who, what etc) | |
| 楚 楚 | name of feudal state; clear | |
| 有办法 有辦法 | can find methods; resourceful; creative | |
| 笔录 筆錄 | to put down in writing; to take down notes; transcript; record | |
| 相衬 相襯 | to contrast; to set off one another; to go well with | |
| 车龙 車龍 | long queue of slow-moving traffic; tram | |
| 阿妈 阿媽 | grandma (paternal) (Tw); (dialect) mother; nurse; amah; (Manchu) father | |
| 性行为 性行為 | sexual behavior | |
| 走光 走光 | to expose oneself; to be completely gone | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 不合 不合 | to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out | |
| 干活 幹活 | to work; to be employed | |
| 会死 會死 | mortal | |
| 按下 按下 | to press down; to press a button | |
| 去台 去臺 | to go to Taiwan; refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 生日快乐 生日快樂 | Happy birthday | |
| 要死 要死 | extremely; awfully | |
| 胡 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 弄伤 弄傷 | to bruise; to hurt (something) | |
| 笔直 筆直 | perfectly straight; straight as a ramrod; bolt upright | |
| 兰 蘭 | orchid; elegant, graceful | |
| 光光 光光 | bright; shiny; smooth; naked; bald; penniless | |
| 活活 活活 | while still alive; simply; totally | |
| 人相 人相 | physiognomy |