Detective Chinatown 2015
唐人街探案
After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case.
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Vocabulary
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| 才 才 | ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only | |
| 更 更 | to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
| 可能 可能 | might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps | |
| 该 該 | should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned | |
| 但是 但是 | but; however | |
| 它 它 | it | |
| 问题 問題 | question; problem; issue; topic | |
| 只 隻 | only; merely; just; but | |
| 又 又 | (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway | |
| 因为 因為 | because; owing to; on account of | |
| 如果 如果 | if; in case; in the event that | |
| 已经 已經 | already | |
| 这样 這樣 | this kind of; so; this way; like this; such | |
| 得 得 | to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 但 但 | but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 多事 多事 | meddlesome; eventful | Xiehouyu |
| 慢慢来 慢慢來 | take your time; take it easy | Xiehouyu |
| 大不了 大不了 | at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 好看 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 小三 小三 | mistress; the other woman (coll.); grade 3 in elementary school | Colloquialism |
| 小妹妹 小妹妹 | little sister; little girl; (coll.) vulva | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 肉 肉 | meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 四月 四月 | April; fourth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 上海 上海 | Shanghai municipality | Proper Noun |
| 十一 十一 | PRC National Day (October 1st) | Proper Noun |
| 老挝 老撾 | Laos | Proper Noun |
| 中国话 中國話 | (spoken) Chinese language | Proper Noun |
| 大汉 大漢 | Han Dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 韩国 韓國 | South Korea (Republic of Korea); (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States | Proper Noun |
| 中国人 中國人 | Chinese person | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 哪知道 哪知道 | who would have thought that ...? |