Never Say Never 2023
八角笼中
A former boxing champion takes decides to break a few rules and train orphans from China's remote countryside in order to give them a future.
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Vocabulary
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| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 不屈不挠 不屈不撓 | unyielding; indomitable | Idiom |
| 再生父母 再生父母 | like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor | Idiom |
| 重操旧业 重操舊業 | to resume one's old trade (idiom) | Idiom |
| 三顾茅庐 三顧茅廬 | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Liu Bei recruits Zhuge Liang to his cause by | Idiom |
| 拒之门外 拒之門外 | to lock one's door and refuse to see sb | Idiom |
| 忘恩负义 忘恩負義 | to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend; to kick a benefactor in the teeth | Idiom |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 龟儿子 龜兒子 | (coll.) bastard; son of a bitch | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | 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)? | |
| 牟利 牟利 | to gain profit (by underhand means); to exploit; exploitation | |
| 彬彬 彬彬 | refined, gentle, and elegant | |
| 惹事 惹事 | to cause trouble | |
| 乾坤 乾坤 | yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe | |
| 打拳 打拳 | to do shadowboxing | |
| 仙人 仙人 | Daoist immortal; celestial being | |
| 小屁孩 小屁孩 | kid; youngster; (derog.) brat | |
| 开炮 開砲 | to open fire | |
| 砸场子 砸場子 | to create a disruption at an event or venue | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 野草 野草 | weeds; mistress or prostitute (old) | |
| 威震 威震 | to inspire awe | |
| 干爹 乾爹 | adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
| 诱拐 誘拐 | to abduct; to kidnap | |
| 弄清 弄清 | to clarify; to fully understand | |
| 脑震荡 腦震盪 | (med.) cerebral concussion | |
| 打爆 打爆 | to blow out; to blow off; (computer games) to zap; (phone) to ring off the hook; to be jammed; to max out (credit card etc) | |
| 销路 銷路 | sale; market; state of the market; sales event | |
| 清白 清白 | pure; innocent | |
| 板砖 板磚 | (dialect) wall brick | |
| 假冒伪劣 假冒偽劣 | cheap quality counterfeit (goods); low-quality commodities | |
| 嘟囔 嘟囔 | to mumble to oneself | |
| 名堂 名堂 | item (in a program of entertainments); trick (act of mischief); worthwhile result; accomplishment; sth significant but not immediately apparent; sth more than meets the eye | |
| 洋芋 洋芋 | (dialect) potato | |
| 事半功倍 事半功倍 | (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort | |
| 啥子 啥子 | (dialect) what | |
| 野狗 野狗 | wild dog; feral dog; stray dog | |
| 甩掉 甩掉 | to throw off; to abandon; to cast off; to get rid of; to dump | |
| 小混混 小混混 | hooligan; rogue; a good-for-nothing | |
| 正儿八经 正兒八經 | serious; earnest; real; true | |
| 假戏真做 假戲真做 | 假: falsehood, deception; vacation · 戏: theatrical play, show · 真: real, actual, true, genuine · 做: work, make; act | |
| 尿检 尿檢 | urine test; urinalysis; to do a urine test | |
| 添麻烦 添麻煩 | to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience |