Protégé 2007
门徒
A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protégé to one of the key players, Banker. Now, Nick has but he has started to feel loyalty to his new environment and to the money.
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Vocabulary
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| 食古不化 食古不化 | to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom); to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject | Idiom |
| 混蛋 混蛋 | scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 搞不好 搞不好 | (coll.) maybe; perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 神经 神經 | nerve; mental state; (coll.) unhinged; nutjob | Colloquialism |
| 估计 估計 | to estimate; to reckon; (coll.) to suppose | Colloquialism |
| 昆 崐 | elder brother; descendants | |
| 芬 芬 | fragrance, aroma; perfume | |
| 海洛英 海洛英 | heroin (narcotic) (loanword) | |
| 神经病 神經病 | mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case | |
| 怎 怎 | how (variant of 怎么) | |
| 年青 年青 | youthful | |
| 搞错 搞錯 | mistake; to make a mistake; to blunder; mistaken | |
| 跟丢 跟丟 | to lose track of | |
| 婶 嬸 | wife of father's younger brother | |
| 胆固醇 膽固醇 | cholesterol | |
| 镁 鎂 | magnesium | |
| 吸食 吸食 | (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc); (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug); to drink through a straw | |
| 贩毒 販毒 | to traffic narcotics; drugs trade; opium trade | |
| 货源 貨源 | supply of goods | |
| 秒钟 秒鐘 | (time) second | |
| 躁 躁 | tense, excited, irritable | |
| 懵 懵 | stupid, ignorant, dull | |
| 插队 插隊 | to cut in line; to jump a queue; to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution) | |
| 流弹 流彈 | stray bullet | |
| 戒毒 戒毒 | to kick a drug habit; to abstain from drugs | |
| 毒贩 毒販 | drug dealer; drug trafficker | |
| 悄悄话 悄悄話 | whisperings; private words; confidences; sweet nothings | |
| 佐 佐 | assist, aid, second; subordinate | |
| 敦 㪟 | esteem; honest, candid, sincere | |
| 转入 轉入 | to change over to; to shift to; to switch to | |
| 燕 燕 | swallow (bird); comfort, enjoy | |
| 私家 私家 | private; privately owned or managed | |
| 客源 客源 | source of customers | |
| 扔掉 扔掉 | to throw away; to throw out | |
| 不协调 不協調 | uncoordinated; disharmony | |
| 楞 楞 | used for Ceylon in Buddhist texts | |
| 埠 埠 | port city | |
| 狮 獅 | lion | |
| 碱 鹼 | alkaline, alkali, lye, salt | |
| 抢手 搶手 | (of goods) popular; in great demand | |
| 减价 減價 | to cut prices; to discount; to mark down; price cutting | |
| 钞 鈔 | paper money, bank notes; copy | |
| 金主 金主 | financial backer; bankroller | |
| 锁匙 鎖匙 | (dialect) key; Taiwan pr. [suo3 shi5] | |
| 莲 蓮 | lotus, water lily; paradise | |
| 谈价 談價 | to negotiate (prices); to haggle | |
| 听清 聽清 | to hear clearly | |
| 戒毒所 戒毒所 | drug rehabilitation center | |
| 搞不懂 搞不懂 | unable to make sense of (sth) |