Five Tough Guys 1974
五大汉
The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai (a real life martial arts champion who starred in many films for the studio) in order to protect a patriotic general from a scheming usurper. To this end, the unlikely heroes act as the general’s escorts on a dangerous journey to a distant British consulate, beset by enemies and sinister Japanese interference along the way.
Vocabulary
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| 押 押 | to mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign | |
| 毫不 毫不 | hardly; not in the least; not at all | |
| 撤 撤 | to remove; to take away | |
| 流氓 流氓 | rogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior | |
| 闷 悶 | stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly | |
| 亲戚 親戚 | a relative (i.e. family relation) | |
| 功 功 | meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics) | |
| 监视 監視 | to monitor; to keep a close watch over; surveillance | |
| 劫 刦 | to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 波 | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 讨 討 | to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study | |
| 应付 應付 | to deal with; to cope | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 独 獨 | alone; independent; single; sole; only | |
| 堂 堂 | (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture | |
| 皆 皆 | all; each and every; in all cases | |
| 一阵 一陣 | a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time) | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 拳 拳 | fist; boxing | |
| 跟踪 跟蹤 | to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 毫无 毫無 | not in the least; to completely lack | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 天罗地网 天羅地網 | inescapable net (idiom); trap; dragnet | Idiom |
| 轰轰烈烈 轟轟烈烈 | strong; vigorous; large-scale | Idiom |
| 轻举妄动 輕舉妄動 | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 | lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others | Idiom |
| 名正言顺 名正言順 | in a way that justifies the use of the term; genuine; proper; in a way that conforms to logic; justifiable; appropriate; perfectly legitimate | Idiom |
| 饭桶 飯桶 | rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served); (fig.) fathead; a good-for-nothing | Xiehouyu |
| 假正经 假正經 | demure; prudish; hypocritical | Xiehouyu |
| 名不虚传 名不虛傳 | (idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved | Xiehouyu |
| 自夸 自誇 | to boast | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |