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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| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 弃暗投明 棄暗投明 | to renounce the dark and seek the light; to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one | Idiom |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 帅 帥 | (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | Colloquialism |
| 法国人 法國人 | Frenchman; French person | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 好象 好象 | variant of 好像 | |
| 伦 倫 | normal human relationships | |
| 上厕所 上廁所 | to go to the bathroom | |
| 丽 麗 | beautiful, magnificent, elegant | |
| 温 溫 | lukewarm | |
| 顶楼 頂樓 | top floor; attic; loft; garret; penthouse; (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc) | |
| 一堆 一堆 | pile | |
| 纸箱 紙箱 | carton; cardboard box | |
| 屎 屎 | excrement, shit, dung | |
| 王八蛋 王八蛋 | bastard; son of a bitch | |
| 不愉快 不愉快 | disagreeable; unpleasant | |
| 伎俩 伎倆 | trick; scheme; ploy; skill | |
| 自我介绍 自我介紹 | self-introduction; to introduce oneself | |
| 共用 共用 | to share the use of; to have joint use of; communal (bathroom); shared (antenna); to use, in total,... | |
| 兄 兄 | elder brother | |
| 激 激 | arouse, excite, incite; quickly | |
| 申请书 申請書 | application; application form; petition (to higher authorities) | |
| 反悔 反悔 | to renege; to go back (on a deal); to back out (of a promise) | |
| 平方 平方 | square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) | |
| 引进 引進 | to recommend; to introduce (from outside) | |
| 帅哥 帥哥 | handsome guy; lady-killer; handsome (form of address) | |
| 顺序 順序 | sequence; order | |
| 进口 進口 | to import; imported; entrance; inlet (for the intake of air, water etc) | |
| 老实 老實 | honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible | |
| 招呼 招呼 | to call out to; to greet; to say hello to; to inform; to take care of; to take care that one does not | |
| 破产 破產 | to go bankrupt; to become impoverished; bankruptcy | |
| 同情 同情 | to sympathize with; sympathy | |
| 男女 男女 | male-female; male and female | |
| 翻译 翻譯 | to translate; to interpret; translator; interpreter; translation; interpretation | |
| 笨 笨 | stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy | |
| 总之 總之 | in a word; in short; in brief | |
| 地位 地位 | position; status; place | |
| 有趣 有趣 | interesting; fascinating; amusing | |
| 分手 分手 | to part company; to split up; to break up | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 列 列 | to arrange; to line up; file; series; (in data tables) column; (Tw) row | |
| 独立 獨立 | independent; independence; to stand alone | |
| 兴趣 興趣 | interest (desire to know about sth); interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby | |
| 兴奋 興奮 | excited; excitement; (physiology) excitation |