Once a Gangster 2010
飞砂风中转
Roast Pork joins the triad as a young man and ends up becoming a trusted lieutenant of boss Kerosene. However, his true passion is in his successful chain of restaurants, his loving wife, and his two children. So when Kerosene wants to promote his trusted right hand man to the top of the organization as a way to take on his financial debts, it's understandable why Roast Pork would want to refuse. Roast Pork comes up with an intricate scheme with his men that would take himself out of the running, but Kerosene's intervention causes it to fail. When all hopes appears to be lost, lifelong gangster Sparrow is released from jail after serving a 20-year sentence for committing a gang-related murder that earned him a guarantee for the leader spot. However, Sparrow has made his own plans to stay out of the gang, setting off a battle of wits between the two men.
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Vocabulary
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| 经济 經濟 | economy; economic | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 空 空 | empty; air; sky; in vain | |
| 后面 後面 | the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards | |
| 直到 直到 | until | |
| 刀 刀 | knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass; (slang) dollar (loanword); classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs | |
| 破 破 | broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of | |
| 经验 經驗 | experience; to experience | |
| 痛 痛 | ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly | |
| 上面 上面 | on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shàng mian] | |
| 不断 不斷 | unceasing; uninterrupted; continuous; constant | |
| 从来 從來 | always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence) | |
| 管理 管理 | to supervise; to manage; to administer; management; administration | |
| 危险 危險 | danger; dangerous | |
| 市场 市場 | marketplace; market (also in abstract) | |
| 老板 老闆 | boss; business proprietor | |
| 火 火 | fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 | |
| 环境 環境 | environment; circumstances; surroundings; ambient | |
| 照 炤 | according to; in accordance with; to shine; to illuminate; to reflect; to look at (one's reflection); to take (a photo); photo; as requested; as before | |
| 产生 產生 | to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate | |
| 牛 牛 | ox; cow; bull; newton (abbr. for 牛顿); (slang) awesome | |
| 难道 難道 | don't tell me ...; could it be that...? | |
| 困难 困難 | difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation | |
| 警察 警察 | police; police officer | |
| 关注 關注 | to pay attention to; to follow sth closely; to follow (on social media); concern; interest; attention | |
| 反应 反應 | to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction | |
| 久 久 | (long) time; (long) duration of time | |
| 本来 本來 | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course | |
| 显示 顯示 | to show; to illustrate; to display; to demonstrate | |
| 仍然 仍然 | still; as before; yet | |
| 各 各 | each; every | |
| 母亲 母親 | mother; also pr. [mǔ qin] | |
| 压力 壓力 | pressure | |
| 事件 事件 | event; happening; incident | |
| 步 步 | a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation | |
| 报 報 | to announce; to inform; report; newspaper; recompense; revenge | |
| 支 支 | to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions | |
| 敢 敢 | to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture | |
| 交易 交易 | to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal | |
| 首先 首先 | first (of all); in the first place | |
| 负责 負責 | to be in charge of; to take responsibility for; to be to blame; conscientious | |
| 谈 談 | to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss | |
| 发展 發展 | development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand | |
| 力 力 | power; force; strength; ability; strenuously | |
| 确实 確實 | indeed; really; reliable; real; true | |
| 社会 社會 | society | |
| 金 金 | gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 抓 抓 | to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch | |
| 各位 各位 | everybody; all (guests, colleagues etc); all of you | |
| 派 派 | clique; school; group; faction; to dispatch; to send; to assign; to appoint; pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926; (loanword) pie |