Shanghai Grand 1996
新上海滩
Hui Man Keung is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ding Lik, a kindly beggar who is in love with Fung Ching Ching, the daughter of a prominent gangster. It isn't long before Ding Lik rises through the underworld ranks to become one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Vocabulary
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| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 巴黎 巴黎 | Paris, capital of France | Proper Noun |
| 黄埔 黃埔 | Huangpu District, Guangzhou; Whampoa (old transliteration); Guangdong Harbor | Proper Noun |
| 黄浦 黃浦 | Huangpu River, major river flowing through Shanghai, dividing the city into Puxi (west of the river) and Pudong (east of the river); Huangpu, the most central of Shanghai's districts | Proper Noun |
| 贵姓 貴姓 | what is your surname?; (May I ask) your surname? | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 万岁 萬歲 | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty | |
| 大只 大隻 | big | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 斧头 斧頭 | ax; hatchet | |
| 带走 帶走 | to carry; to take away | |
| 交出 交出 | to hand over | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 两句 兩句 | (say) a few words | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 上街 上街 | to go onto the streets; to go shopping | |
| 大全 大全 | comprehensive collection | |
| 让开 讓開 | to get out of the way; to step aside | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 做完 做完 | to finish; to complete the task | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 还嘴 還嘴 | to retort; to answer back | |
| 有份 有份 | to have a share of (responsibility etc); to be concerned; to be involved | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 知会 知會 | to inform; to tell; to notify; notification | |
| 起头 起頭 | to start; at first; beginning | |
| 难闻 難聞 | unpleasant smell; stink | |
| 操 撡 | conduct, run, control, manage | |
| 得很 得很 | (after an adjective) very | |
| 快当 快當 | quick; rapid | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 在身 在身 | to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit) | |
| 不带 不帶 | not to have; without; un- |