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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| 会见 會見 | to meet with (sb who is paying a visit) | |
| 远离 遠離 | to be far from; to keep away from | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 智慧 智慧 | wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence | |
| 大师 大師 | great master; master | |
| 趟 䠀 | to wade; to trample; to turn the soil | |
| 全力 全力 | with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support) | |
| 炸 炸 | to deep fry; Taiwan pr. [zhà] | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 咨询 咨詢 | to consult; to seek advice; consultation; (sales) inquiry (formal) | |
| 为此 為此 | for this reason; with regards to this; in this respect; in order to do this; to this end | |
| 绝 絕 | to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means | |
| 托 托 | to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee | |
| 将军 將軍 | general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot | |
| 上帝 上帝 | God | |
| 端 端 | end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular | |
| 负 負 | to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 法庭 法庭 | court of law | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 权力 權力 | power; authority | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 学会 學會 | to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 岛 島 | island | |
| 说实话 說實話 | to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly | |
| 理 理 | 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 | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 允许 允許 | to permit; to allow | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 利 利 | sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 死亡 死亡 | to die; death | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 於 | to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle; variant of 于 | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 眉来眼去 眉來眼去 | (idiom) to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb | Idiom |
| 将心比心 將心比心 | to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom) | Idiom |
| 躲躲闪闪 躲躲閃閃 | to evade; to dodge (out of the way) | Idiom |