Fast Fingers

Fast Fingers 1983

liángshàngjūn

Two young pickpockets follow around after their uncle, the King of Pickpockets, just released from jail. Can the King keep on the straight and narrow this time ?

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4.28 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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bào gào to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture HSK 3
miàn inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] HSK 3
bǎo chí to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve HSK 3
chú le besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for) HSK 3
xià lai to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) HSK 3
horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess HSK 3
bǎo to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection HSK 3
調 diào chá investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll HSK 3
zhuǎi see 转文 HSK 3
zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this HSK 3
Chéng gōng Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 台东县, southeast Taiwan HSK 3
dāng rán only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt HSK 3
lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
使 使 shǐ to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger HSK 3
shòu to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) HSK 3
how; what way; what HSK 3
zhǐ yǒu only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") HSK 3
yóu to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... HSK 3
qiè everything; every; all HSK 3
zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes HSK 3
xīn heart; mind; intention; center; core HSK 3
to continue; to proceed with; to go on with HSK 3
shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out HSK 3
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi 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) HSK 3
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}) HSK 3
jiǎ de bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
ròu bāo zi gǒu lit. to fling a meat bun at a dog (idiom); fig. to flush (one's money or efforts) down the toilet; to kiss sth goodbye Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
gǎi háng to change profession Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
xià liú lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
tǐng 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 HSK 2
Tsui Hark (1951-), Chinese movie director and producer Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Hán Xìn Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
bié le say no more; don't bring it up; drop the subject ∼HSK 2
gǎi tiān another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
a line of verse; a sentence ∼HSK 2
shōu gōng to stop work for the day (generally of laborers); to knock off ∼HSK 2
bié qi don't mention it; no formalities, please ∼HSK 2
tóu to start; at first; beginning ∼HSK 2
biǎo younger male cousin via female line ∼HSK 2
hái zi girl ∼HSK 2
shēn body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 ∼HSK 2
de hěn (after an adjective) very ∼HSK 2