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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| 撑 撐 | to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 晕 暈 | confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 胸 胷 | chest; bosom; heart; mind; thorax | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 承诺 承諾 | to promise; to undertake to do something; commitment | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 超 超 | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 荣华富贵 榮華富貴 | glory, splendor, wealth and rank (idiom); high position and great wealth | Idiom |
| 滚开 滾開 | (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! | Xiehouyu |
| 滚蛋 滾蛋 | get out of here!; beat it! | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 胡子 鬍子 | beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit | Colloquialism |
| 冯 馮 | surname; gallop; by dint of | |
| 荣 榮 | glory, honor; flourish, prosper | |
| 滩 灘 | bank, a sandbar, shoal; rapids | |
| 逃兵 逃兵 | army deserter | |
| 年青 年青 | youthful | |
| 怎 怎 | how (variant of 怎么) | |
| 尧 堯 | a legendary ancient emperor-sage | |
| 大洋 大洋 | ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan | |
| 蟹 蟹 | crab, brachyura | |
| 臭味 臭味 | bad smell; foul odor | |
| 操你妈 操你媽 | fuck your mother (vulgar) | |
| 尸 屍 | corpse; to impersonate the dead; to preside; KangXi radical 44 | |
| 什么话 什麼話 | what kind of talk | |
| 憎恨 憎恨 | to detest; hatred | |
| 财源滚滚 財源滾滾 | profits pouring in from all sides (idiom); raking in money; bonanza | |
| 衰 衰 | decline, falter, decrease; weaken | |
| 翅膀硬 翅膀硬 | (of a bird) to fledge; (fig.) (of a person) to outgrow the need to be submissive to one's parents, mentor etc; to break away from the people who have supported one up to now | |
| 我操 我操 | (substitute for) fuck; WTF | |
| 戏弄 戲弄 | to play tricks on; to make fun of; to tease | |
| 骂人 罵人 | to swear or curse (at people); to scold or yell at someone | |
| 泊 泊 | anchor vessel; lie at anchor | |
| 从头到尾 從頭到尾 | from start to finish; from head to tail; the whole (thing) | |
| 浅尝 淺嘗 | to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink); (fig.) to dabble in; to flirt with (a topic) | |
| 搞不懂 搞不懂 | unable to make sense of (sth) | |
| 叭 叭 | trumpet | |
| 戏院 戲院 | theater | |
| 祥 祥 | good luck, good omen; happiness |