Kung Fu Hustle 2004
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It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
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Vocabulary
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| 强 強 | stubborn; unyielding | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 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) | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 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") | |
| 决定 決定 | to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly | |
| 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 | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 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}) | |
| 千千万万 千千萬萬 | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands | Idiom |
| 出人头地 出人頭地 | to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel | Idiom |
| 三脚猫 三腳貓 | sb with only rudimentary skills (in a particular area) | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 斧头 斧頭 | ax; hatchet | |
| 个头 個頭 | size; height | |
| 杀人 殺人 | homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 小意思 小意思 | small token; mere trifle (used of one's gifts) | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 讲道 講道 | to preach; a sermon | |
| 跑掉 跑掉 | to run away; to take to one's heels | |
| 流星 流星 | meteor; shooting star; meteor hammer | |
| 月租 月租 | to rent by the month | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 有道 有道 | to have attained the Way; (of a government or a ruler) enlightened; wise and just | |
| 轻轻 輕輕 | lightly; softly | |
| 家当 家當 | familial property; belongings | |
| 黑帮 黑幫 | bunch of gangsters; criminal gang; organized crime syndicate | |
| 过份 過份 | variant of | |
| 往前 往前 | (in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future | |
| 分头 分頭 | separately; severally; parted hair | |
| 向东 向東 | eastwards | |
| 卖唱 賣唱 | to sing for a living | |
| 早知道 早知道 | If I had known earlier... | |
| 口红 口紅 | lipstick | |
| 层楼 層樓 | multistoried building; tower; pagoda | |
| 妓院 妓院 | brothel; whorehouse |