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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| 多谢 多謝 | many thanks; thanks a lot | Xiehouyu |
| 不快 不快 | unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp | Xiehouyu |
| 好听 好聽 | pleasant to hear | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乾 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 上床 上床 | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 上海 上海 | Shanghai municipality | Proper Noun |
| 台湾 台灣 | variant of | Proper Noun |
| 日本人 日本人 | Japanese person or people | Proper Noun |
| 日本 日本 | Japan | Proper Noun |
| 广东 廣東 | Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou | Proper Noun |
| 法国 法國 | France | Proper Noun |
| 美国 美國 | United States; USA; US | Proper Noun |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 大新 大新 | Daxin county in Chongzuo, Guangxi | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 放开 放開 | to let go; to release | |
| 小子 小子 | (literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation); (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) | |
| 一个人 一個人 | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 汉奸 漢奸 | traitor (to China) | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia | |
| 大三 大三 | third-year university student | |
| 对了 對了 | Correct!; Oh, that's right,... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention); Oh, by the way,... | |
| 在外 在外 | outer; excluded | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 妈的 媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 那个人 那個人 | lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams | |
| 会不会 會不會 | (posing a question: whether sb, something) can or cannot?; is able to or not | |
| 还给 還給 | to return sth to sb | |
| 一种 一種 | one kind of; one type of | |
| 有点 有點 | a little | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler |