Chasing the Dragon 2017
追龙
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
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Vocabulary
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| 放过 放過 | to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth | |
| 随身 隨身 | to (carry) on one's person; to (take) with one | |
| 有机 有機 | organic | |
| 荣幸 榮幸 | honored (to have the privilege of ...) | |
| 一早 一早 | early in the morning; at dawn | |
| 花样 花樣 | pattern; way of doing sth; trick; ruse; fancy-style (as in 花样滑冰 figure skating) | |
| 出卖 出賣 | to offer for sale; to sell; to sell out; to betray | |
| 废话 廢話 | nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words; You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic) | |
| 工地 工地 | construction site | |
| 爵士 爵士 | knight; Sir; (loanword) jazz | |
| 倒数 倒數 | to count backwards (from 10 down to 0); to count down; from the bottom (lines on a page); from the back (rows of seats) | |
| 称呼 稱呼 | to call; to address as; form of address; appellation | |
| 坏事 壞事 | bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things | |
| 虚 虛 | emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain | |
| 乃 乃 | to be; thus; so; therefore; then; only; thereupon | |
| 生死 生死 | life or death | |
| 凑 湊 | to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity | |
| 货物 貨物 | goods; commodity; merchandise | |
| 拦 攔 | to block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi) | |
| 底线 底線 | bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept; (sports) baseline; (sewing) under thread; spy; informer; plant | |
| 开枪 開槍 | to open fire; to shoot a gun | |
| 封锁 封鎖 | to blockade; to seal off; to lock down | |
| 捞 撈 | to fish up; to dredge up | |
| 消 消 | to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take | |
| 出手 出手 | to dispose of; to spend (money); to undertake a task | |
| 规矩 規矩 | lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved | |
| 人性 人性 | human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes | |
| 取代 取代 | to replace; to supersede; to supplant; (chemistry) substitution | |
| 指望 指望 | to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope | |
| 曝光 曝光 | to expose (photography); (fig.) to expose (a scandal); (advertising) exposure; Taiwan pr. [pù guāng] | |
| 趴 趴 | to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Tw) percent | |
| 低调 低調 | low pitch; quiet (voice); subdued; low-key; low-profile | |
| 粒 粒 | grain; granule; classifier for small round things (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc) | |
| 保佑 保佑 | to bless and protect; blessing | |
| 骨折 骨折 | to suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break; fracture | |
| 烫 燙 | to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot | |
| 残 殘 | to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus | |
| 引擎 引擎 | engine (loanword) | |
| 体系 體系 | system; setup | |
| 应付 應付 | to deal with; to cope | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 诱惑 誘惑 | to entice; to lure; to induce; to attract | |
| 宗 宗 | school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | |
| 玫瑰 玫瑰 | rugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa); rose flower | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 司法 司法 | judicial; (administration of) justice | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 完毕 完畢 | to finish; to end; to complete | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb |