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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| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 公平 公平 | fair; impartial | |
| 观点 觀點 | point of view; viewpoint; standpoint | |
| 放下 放下 | to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc) | |
| 热情 熱情 | cordial; enthusiastic; passion; passionate; passionately | |
| 红色 紅色 | red (color); revolutionary | |
| 答应 答應 | to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise | |
| 随时 隨時 | at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary | |
| 随便 隨便 | as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton | |
| 英语 英語 | English (language) | |
| 差不多 差不多 | almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad | |
| 可怕 可怕 | awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly | |
| 心中 心中 | central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart | |
| 实际 實際 | reality; practice; practical; realistic; real; actual | |
| 语言 語言 | language | |
| 什么样 什麼樣 | what kind?; what sort? | |
| 多么 多麼 | how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent | |
| 角度 角度 | angle; point of view | |
| 成绩 成績 | achievement; performance records; grades | |
| 好多 好多 | many; quite a lot; much better | |
| 轻 輕 | light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage | |
| 黄 黃 | yellow; pornographic; to fall through | |
| 千 千 | thousand | |
| 提高 提高 | to raise; to increase; to improve | |
| 亮 亮 | bright; clear; resonant; to shine; to show; to reveal | |
| 疼 疼 | (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly | |
| 急 急 | urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious | |
| 照顾 照顧 | to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after | |
| 一生 一生 | all one's life; throughout one's life | |
| 封 封 | to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 头发 頭髮 | hair (on the head) | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 想法 想法 | way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth) | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 小心 小心 | to be careful; to take care | |
| 咱们 咱們 | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] | |
| 打算 打算 | to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 遍 徧 | everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time | |
| 养 養 | to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth | |
| 表 表 | exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth) | |
| 实在 實在 | really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality | |
| 流 流 | to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade | |
| 习惯 習慣 | habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to | |
| 通知 通知 | to notify; to inform; notice; notification | |
| 腿 腿 | leg | |
| 心里 心裡 | chest; heart; mind | |
| 教育 教育 | to educate; to teach; education | |
| 留下 留下 | to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go |