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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huì jiàn to meet with (sb who is paying a visit) HSK 6
yuǎn to be far from; to keep away from HSK 6
dàng chéng to consider as; to take to be HSK 6
hěn ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 HSK 6
suàn le let it be; let it pass; forget about it HSK 6
cǎn miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy HSK 6
zhì huì wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence HSK 6
shī great master; master HSK 6
tāng to wade; to trample; to turn the soil HSK 6
quán with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support) HSK 6
zhá to deep fry; Taiwan pr. [zhà] HSK 6
méng drizzle; mist HSK 6
mái to bury HSK 6
xún to consult; to seek advice; consultation; (sales) inquiry (formal) HSK 6
wèi for this reason; with regards to this; in this respect; in order to do this; to this end HSK 6
jué to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means HSK 6
tuō to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee HSK 6
jiāng jūn general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot HSK 6
Shàng God HSK 6
duān end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular HSK 6
to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) HSK 6
zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
tíng court of law HSK 6
liáo to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly HSK 6
quán power; authority HSK 6
chǎo to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) HSK 6
yìn to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
xué huì to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association HSK 6
jūn duì armed forces; troops HSK 6
hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
dǎo island HSK 6
shuō shí huà to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly HSK 6
texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
yàng manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type HSK 6
yǔn to permit; to allow HSK 6
zhāo to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess HSK 6
secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions HSK 6
sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit HSK 6
jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
wáng to die; death HSK 6
special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex HSK 6
yǒu guān to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning HSK 6
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle; variant of 于 HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
méi lái yǎn (idiom) to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb Idiom ∼HSK 5
jiāng xīn xīn to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 5
duǒ duǒ shǎn shǎn to evade; to dodge (out of the way) Idiom ∼HSK 5