Bruce Lee, My Brother 2010
李小龙我的兄弟
An action-dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. It revolves around Bruce Lee's life as a rebellious adolescent in Hong Kong before he sets off for the USA and conquers the world at the age of 18 with only $100 in his pocket.
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Vocabulary
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| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 千千万万 千千萬萬 | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands | Idiom |
| 坏蛋 壞蛋 | bad egg; scoundrel; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 姐夫 姐夫 | (coll.) older sister's husband | Colloquialism |
| 你个头 你個頭 | (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in "expert", my ass!) | Colloquialism |
| 省省吧 省省吧 | (coll.) Don't waste your breath.; Save it! | Colloquialism |
| 干活儿 幹活兒 | erhua variant of 干活; (coll.) to work; (coll.) to be employed | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 黄飞鸿 黃飛鴻 | Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master | Proper Noun |
| 荷兰 荷蘭 | Holland; the Netherlands | Proper Noun |
| 三藩市 三藩市 | San Francisco (California) | Proper Noun |
| 新加坡 新加坡 | Singapore | Proper Noun |
| 大雪 大雪 | Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December | Proper Noun |
| 海口 海口 | Haikou, prefecture-level city and capital of Hainan Province | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 华 華 | flowery; illustrious; Chinese | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 片场 片場 | filming location; film set | |
| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 波 波 | waves, breakers; undulations | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 让开 讓開 | to get out of the way; to step aside | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 响头 響頭 | to bump one's head; to kowtow with head-banging on the ground | |
| 男孩子 男孩子 | boy | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 小意思 小意思 | small token; mere trifle (used of one's gifts) | |
| 取名 取名 | to name; to be named; to christen; to seek fame | |
| 言 言 | words, speech; speak, say | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 走狗 走狗 | hunting dog; hound; (fig.) running dog; lackey | |
| 手气 手氣 | luck (in gambling) |