As Tears Go By 1988
旺角卡门
Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
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Vocabulary
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| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 转 轉 | to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actions | |
| 消息 消息 | news; information | |
| 部 部 | ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 决定 決定 | to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 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}) | |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 省省吧 省省吧 | (coll.) Don't waste your breath.; Save it! | Colloquialism |
| 老头子 老頭子 | (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 大数 大數 | Tarsus, Mediterranean city in Turkey, the birthplace of St Paul | Proper Noun |
| 华 華 | flowery; illustrious; Chinese | |
| 表哥 表哥 | older male cousin via female line | |
| 表妹 表妹 | younger female cousin via female line | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 波 波 | waves, breakers; undulations | |
| 鱼蛋 魚蛋 | fish ball | |
| 鲍鱼 鮑魚 | abalone | |
| 明知 明知 | to be fully aware of; to know perfectly well | |
| 一只 一隻 | one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... | |
| 一句 一句 | a line of verse; a sentence | |
| 基 基 | foundation, base | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 看医生 看醫生 | to visit a doctor | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 世 世 | generation; world; era | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 留给 留給 | to set aside for | |
| 做完 做完 | to finish; to complete the task | |
| 来讲 來講 | as to; considering; for | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 向东 向東 | eastwards | |
| 改天 改天 | another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check | |
| 两句 兩句 | (say) a few words | |
| 几度 幾度 | how many times; several times; how many degrees (in terms of temperature or angle); several degrees; to what degree; to what extent | |
| 五度 五度 | five degrees; fifth (basic musical interval, doh to soh) | |
| 什么地方 什麼地方 | somewhere; someplace; where |