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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| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 家族 家族 | family; clan | |
| 素 素 | raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever | |
| 艘 艘 | classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sāo] | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 以 㕥 | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) | |
| 兵荒马乱 兵荒馬亂 | soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war | Idiom |
| 担惊受怕 擔驚受怕 | (idiom) apprehensive; alarmed; anxious | Idiom |
| 涂脂抹粉 塗脂抹粉 | (idiom) to put on makeup; (idiom) to prettify | Idiom |
| 鼻青脸肿 鼻青臉腫 | a bloody nose and a swollen face; badly battered | Idiom |
| 吞云吐雾 吞雲吐霧 | to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom); to blow cigarette or opium smoke | Idiom |
| 谈情说爱 談情說愛 | to murmur endearments (idiom); to get into a romantic relationship | Idiom |
| 耀武扬威 耀武揚威 | to show off one's military strength (idiom); to strut around; to bluff; to bluster | Idiom |
| 聪明伶俐 聰明伶俐 | (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted | Idiom |
| 有眼不识泰山 有眼不識泰山 | lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom); fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent; to be blind to the fact | Idiom |
| 报仇雪恨 報仇雪恨 | to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom) | Idiom |
| 龙蛇混杂 龍蛇混雜 | lit. dragons and snakes mingle (idiom); fig. a mix of good people and scumbags | Idiom |
| 肥水不流外人田 肥水不流外人田 | lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field; fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb) | Xiehouyu |
| 肉麻 肉麻 | sickening; corny; sappy; maudlin; fulsome (of praise) | Xiehouyu |
| 跟屁虫 跟屁蟲 | lit. bum beetle; sb who tags along; shadow; sycophant | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 邋遢 邋遢 | unkempt | |
| 恰恰舞 恰恰舞 | (loanword) cha-cha; cha-cha-cha (dance) | |
| 死党 死黨 | best friends; inseparable sidekick; diehard followers | |
| 磕头 磕頭 | to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) | |
| 皇军 皇軍 | imperial army (esp. Japanese) | |
| 吃醋 吃醋 | to feel jealous | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
| 欧文 歐文 | Owen (name); Erwin (name); Irvine, California | |
| 升斗 升斗 | liter and decaliter dry measure; (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff | |
| 如常 如常 | as usual | |
| 拚命 拚命 | to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it | |
| 弹珠 彈珠 | a marble (used in games) |