Be There or Be Square

Be There or Be Square 1998

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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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4.05 Intermediate Director Feng Xiaogang IMDb 7.2

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Vocabulary

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yàng that kind; that sort HSK 2
gǎn xiè (express) thanks; gratitude; grateful; thankful; thanks HSK 2
yīn yuè music HSK 2
zhuāng adornment; to adorn; dress; clothing; costume (of an actor in a play); to play a role; to pretend; to install; to fix; to wrap (sth in a bag); to load; to pack HSK 2
yuàn to wish; to want; ready; willing (to do sth) HSK 2
abbr. for 克罗地亚, Croatia; (Tw) abbr. for 克罗埃西亚, Croatia HSK 2
to serve; service HSK 2
diàn inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store HSK 2
Hēi abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 HSK 2
zhèng cháng regular; normal; ordinary HSK 2
quán whole; all HSK 2
jiāo to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); variant of 跤 HSK 2
tào to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ) HSK 2
liú to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve HSK 2
liàng classifier for vehicles HSK 2
suàn to regard as; to figure; to calculate; to compute HSK 2
guò lái to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of HSK 2
bàn to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with HSK 2
dài lái to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce HSK 2
qiǎ to block; to be stuck; to be wedged; customs station; a clip; a fastener; a checkpost; Taiwan pr. [kǎ] HSK 2
xíng dòng operation; action; to move about; mobile HSK 2
rice; meter (classifier) HSK 2
jiǎn chá inspection; to examine; to inspect HSK 2
liǎn face HSK 2
huàn to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency) HSK 2
zuì jìn recently; soon; nearest HSK 2
fèn classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分 HSK 2
miàn face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc HSK 2
perhaps; maybe HSK 2
yǒng yuǎn forever; eternal HSK 2
sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse HSK 2
yǐng xiǎng influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb HSK 2
mài to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt HSK 2
xuǎn to choose; to pick; to select; to elect HSK 2
to form; to organize; group; team; classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries HSK 2
Yuè generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南 HSK 2
wéi to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) HSK 2
tóng shí at the same time; simultaneously HSK 2
piān disk; sheet HSK 2
shēng to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student HSK 2
kāi to depart; to leave HSK 2
used in 俟 HSK 2
jiǎng to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasize; to be particular about; as far as sth is concerned; speech; lecture HSK 2
diào to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc) HSK 2
bié unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是) in particular HSK 2
bàn means; method; way (of doing sth) HSK 2
qián before; formerly; previous; ago HSK 2
dāng shí then; at that time; while HSK 2
to make an effort; to try hard; to strive; hard-working; conscientious HSK 2
jiā to add; plus; (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned); to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb); to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth) HSK 2