Mahjong 1996
麻将
Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.
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Vocabulary
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| 生死 生死 | life or death | |
| 开枪 開槍 | to open fire; to shoot a gun | |
| 可笑 可笑 | funny; ridiculous | |
| 滋味 滋味 | taste; flavor; feeling | |
| 拜托 拜託 | to request sb to do sth; please! | |
| 幢 幢 | classifier for buildings; carriage curtain (old) | |
| 规矩 規矩 | lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved | |
| 难怪 難怪 | (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that) | |
| 倒霉 倒霉 | to have bad luck; to be out of luck | |
| 背叛 背叛 | to betray | |
| 无辜 無辜 | innocent; innocence; not guilty (law) | |
| 有意 有意 | to intend; intentionally; interested in | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 何时 何時 | when | |
| 贱 賤 | inexpensive; lowly; despicable; (bound form) (humble) my | |
| 甩 甩 | to throw; to fling; to swing; to leave behind; to throw off; to dump (sb) | |
| 吼 吼 | to roar; to howl; to shriek; roar or howl of an animal; bellow of rage | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 公寓 公寓 | apartment building; block of flats | |
| 吻 吻 | kiss; to kiss; mouth | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 恭敬不如从命 恭敬不如從命 | deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom); (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc) | Idiom |
| 耍花招 耍花招 | to play tricks on sb | Xiehouyu |
| 难伺候 難伺候 | (coll.) hard to please; high-maintenance | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 博文 博文 | blog article; to write a blog article (netspeak) | |
| 皇太后 皇太后 | empress dowager | |
| 何人 何人 | who | |
| 血光之灾 血光之災 | (idiom) mortal danger; fatal disaster | |
| 阴魂 陰魂 | ghost; spirit | |
| 酒廊 酒廊 | bar | |
| 捉弄 捉弄 | to tease | |
| 寻欢 尋歡 | to seek pleasure (esp. sexual) | |
| 娇生惯养 嬌生慣養 | pampered and spoiled since childhood | |
| 漆黑 漆黑 | pitch-black | |
| 上膛 上膛 | roof of the mouth; to load a gun | |
| 独善其身 獨善其身 | 独: alone, single, solitary, only · 善: good, virtuous, charitable, kind · 其: his, her, its, their; that · 身: body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 降旨 降旨 | to issue an imperial edict | |
| 清白 清白 | pure; innocent | |
| 鉴证 鑑證 | appraisal; verification; authentication; forensic investigation | |
| 鬼魂 鬼魂 | ghost | |
| 炮台 砲臺 | fort; battery | |
| 打炮 打炮 | to open fire with artillery; to set off firecrackers; to make one's stage debut; (slang) to have sex; to masturbate | |
| 不灵 不靈 | not work; be ineffective |