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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| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 不明不白 不明不白 | (idiom) obscure; dubious; shady | Idiom |
| 不三不四 不三不四 | (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 上床 上床 | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 香港 香港 | Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC | Proper Noun |
| 台湾 台灣 | variant of | Proper Noun |
| 美国 美國 | United States; USA; US | Proper Noun |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 昨晚 昨晚 | yesterday evening; last night | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 你妈 你媽 | (interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 等等 等等 | et cetera; and so on...; wait a minute!; hold on! | |
| 不想 不想 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise | |
| 试试看 試試看 | to give it a try | |
| 一次 一次 | first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
| 他妈的 他媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 一种 一種 | one kind of; one type of | |
| 想睡 想睡 | drowsy; sleepy | |
| 到了 到了 | at last; finally; in the end | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 太过 太過 | excessively; too | |
| 开门 開門 | to open a door (lit. and fig.); to open for business | |
| 你我 你我 | you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) | |
| 拿来 拿來 | to bring; to fetch; to get | |
| 好朋友 好朋友 | good friend; (slang) a visit from Aunt Flo (menstrual period) | |
| 想要 想要 | to want to; to feel like; to fancy; to care for sb; desirous of | |
| 不到 不到 | not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than | |
| 太好了 太好了 | very good | |
| 找不到 找不到 | can't find | |
| 没人住 沒人住 | unoccupied |