Fast Fingers 1983
梁上君子
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 ?
Vocabulary
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| 报告 報告 | to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture | |
| 里面 裡面 | inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] | |
| 保持 保持 | to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve | |
| 除了 除了 | besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for) | |
| 下来 下來 | 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) | |
| 马 馬 | horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess | |
| 保护 保護 | to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection | |
| 调查 調查 | investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 者 者 | (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 | |
| 成功 成功 | Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 台东县, southeast Taiwan | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 使 使 | to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 如何 如何 | how; what way; what | |
| 只有 只有 | 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") | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 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 | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 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 |
| 肉包子打狗 肉包子打狗 | 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 |
| 改行 改行 | to change profession | Xiehouyu |
| 下流 下流 | lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene | 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 |
| 徐克 徐克 | Tsui Hark (1951-), Chinese movie director and producer | Proper Noun |
| 韩信 韓信 | Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 别提了 別提了 | say no more; don't bring it up; drop the subject | |
| 改天 改天 | another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 一句 一句 | a line of verse; a sentence | |
| 收工 收工 | to stop work for the day (generally of laborers); to knock off | |
| 别客气 別客氣 | don't mention it; no formalities, please | |
| 起头 起頭 | to start; at first; beginning | |
| 表弟 表弟 | younger male cousin via female line | |
| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 得很 得很 | (after an adjective) very |