Chungking Express 1994
重庆森林
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
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Vocabulary
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| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 比赛 比賽 | competition (sports etc); match; to compete | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 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}) | |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | 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 |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 卡拉 卡拉 | Kara, city in northern Togo; Cara, Karla etc (name) | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 表哥 表哥 | older male cousin via female line | |
| 复 復 | return; repeat; repeatedly | |
| 改天 改天 | another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check | |
| 想通 想通 | to figure out; to realize; to become convinced; to come round (to an idea); to get over it | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 睡得着 睡得著 | to fall asleep; to get to sleep | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 没有关系 沒有關係 | it doesn't matter | |
| 热狗 熱狗 | hot dog (loanword) | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 病假 病假 | sick leave | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 小腿 小腿 | lower leg (from knee to ankle); shank | |
| 过夜 過夜 | to spend the night; overnight | |
| 带过 帶過 | to give sth only cursory attention; to treat sth as not very significant | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 吃掉 吃掉 | to eat up; to consume | |
| 子夜 子夜 | midnight | |
| 满身 滿身 | covered all over | |
| 长片 長片 | feature-length film | |
| 鞋子 鞋子 | shoe | |
| 来讲 來講 | as to; considering; for | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 加满 加滿 | to top up; to fill to the brim | |
| 得很 得很 | (after an adjective) very |