Be There or Be Square 1998
不见不散
The story of two Chinese immigrants' struggles in America. Yuan Liu has lived in LA for years. He has no stable job, no family and lives in a wagon. He seems content with his life until the day he meets Qing Li, a woman with the big "American dream".
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Vocabulary
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| 害 害 | to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity | |
| 瘦 瘦 | thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive | |
| 玻璃 玻璃 | glass; (slang) male homosexual | |
| 硬 硬 | hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial | |
| 辛苦 辛苦 | exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s) | |
| 或是 或是 | or; either one or the other | |
| 扔 扔 | to throw; to throw away | |
| 躲 躲 | to hide; to dodge; to avoid | |
| 全世界 全世界 | worldwide; entire world | |
| 一辈子 一輩子 | (for) a lifetime | |
| 碎 碎 | (transitive or intransitive verb) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered; garrulous | |
| 价 價 | price; value; (chemistry) valence | |
| 猜 猜 | to guess | |
| 撞 撞 | to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident | |
| 吐 吐 | to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances) | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 欧洲 歐洲 | Europe (abbr. for 欧罗巴洲) | |
| 尊重 尊重 | to esteem; to respect; to honor; to value; eminent; serious; proper | |
| 聪明 聰明 | intelligent; clever; bright; smart; acute (of sight and hearing) | |
| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 记忆 記憶 | to remember; to recall; memory | |
| 戏 戲 | trick; drama; play; show | |
| 难以 難以 | hard to (predict, imagine etc) | |
| 愿 願 | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 邀请 邀請 | to invite; invitation | |
| 丢 丟 | to lose; to put aside; to throw | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 执行 執行 | to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run | |
| 一旦 一旦 | in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day | |
| 棒 棒 | stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 关键 關鍵 | crucial point; crux; key; crucial; pivotal | |
| 享受 享受 | to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 再次 再次 | one more time; again; one more; once again | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 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 | |
| 大材小用 大材小用 | using a talented person in an insignificant position (idiom); a sledgehammer to crack a nut | Idiom |