Au Revoir Taipei

Au Revoir Taipei 2010

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Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.

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3.37 Beginner Director Arvin Chen IMDb 6.5

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Vocabulary

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zhī qián before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand HSK 4
zhī hòu after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then HSK 4
dān xīn anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious HSK 4
zhí de unworthy Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
Tái běi Taipei, capital of Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
gàn what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? ∼HSK 3
Mài wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of KangXi radical number 199 ∼HSK 3
yǒu kòng to have time (to do sth) ∼HSK 3
jiǎng prize; award ∼HSK 3
used in transliteration ∼HSK 3
yǒu néng able ∼HSK 3
bāo yín contracted payment (esp. actors' salary in former times) ∼HSK 3
tiáo thong; leather strap; pimp; procurer ∼HSK 3
méi shuǐ zhǔn lacking class; boorish; poor quality; substandard ∼HSK 3
tán tán to discuss; to have a chat ∼HSK 3
zhǔn bèi hǎo le to be ready ∼HSK 3
dào shí hòu when the moment comes; at that time ∼HSK 3
shēng first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) ∼HSK 3
huì to meet; to rendezvous; to merge; to link up; meeting; confluence ∼HSK 3
zhuī huí to recover (sth lost or stolen); to get back ∼HSK 3
zhuā zǒu to arrest ∼HSK 3
zài Tái in Taiwan (used attributively) ∼HSK 3
jià qian price HSK 3
tiào to dance HSK 3
fáng house; building HSK 3
退 退 tuì xiū to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement HSK 3
kàn lai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be HSK 3
dìng to agree; to conclude; to draw up; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to order HSK 3
chǎo to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise HSK 3
gǎn kuài quickly; at once HSK 3
ancient; old; paleo- HSK 3
quē deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of HSK 3
duì dài to treat; treatment HSK 3
jìn progress; improvement; to improve; to progress HSK 3
niàn to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing; to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿) HSK 3
earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 HSK 3
lèi similar; analogous HSK 3
shàng to go up HSK 3
gǎn 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) HSK 3
fèi to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses HSK 3
fǎn zhèng anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side HSK 3
qián miàn ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qián mian] HSK 3
duàn to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly HSK 3
màn màn slowly HSK 3
guài strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled HSK 3
gài roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea HSK 3
jǐn tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten HSK 3
děng dài to wait; to wait for HSK 3
měi hǎo beautiful; fine HSK 3