Tai Chi Hero 2012
太极2：英雄崛起
Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. The second instalment of the "Tai Chi" trilogy continues the journey of Yang Luchan, a gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead who helped save a village from a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines with the knowledge of Tai Chi that they entrusted him with.
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Vocabulary
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| 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}) | |
| 师出有名 師出有名 | lit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom); to do something with good reason; to have just cause | Idiom |
| 网开一面 網開一面 | open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly; to give one's opponent a way out; lenient treatment | Idiom |
| 不对头 不對頭 | fishy; not right; amiss | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 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 |
| 天津 天津 | Tianjin municipality | Proper Noun |
| 长兴 長興 | Changxing county in Huzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 新河 新河 | Xinhe county in Xingtai, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 伦敦 倫敦 | London, capital of United Kingdom | Proper Noun |
| 长子 長子 | Zhangzi county in Shanxi | Proper Noun |
| 河南省 河南省 | Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou | Proper Noun |
| 成大 成大 | National Cheng Kung University | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 世 世 | generation; world; era | |
| 营 營 | encampment, barracks; manage | |
| 咱家 咱家 | I; me; my; (often used in early vernacular literature) | |
| 回嘴 回嘴 | to answer back; to retort | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 名为 名為 | to be called; to be known as | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 纳 納 | admit, take, receive, accept | |
| 身为 身為 | in the capacity of; as | |
| 长眼 長眼 | to have eyes; (fig.) to look where one is going; to watch one's step; to be cautious | |
| 言 言 | words, speech; speak, say | |
| 妹夫 妹夫 | younger sister's husband | |
| 多时 多時 | long time | |
| 千年 千年 | millennium | |
| 长老 長老 | elder; term of respect for a Buddhist monk | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 数百 數百 | several hundred | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 载 載 | load; carry; transport, convey | |
| 更衣 更衣 | to change clothes; to go to the toilet (euphemism) | |
| 懵懵懂懂 懵懵懂懂 | confused; ignorant | |
| 练就 練就 | to master (a skill) | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 了当 了當 | frank; outspoken; ready; settled; in order; (old) to deal with; to handle | |
| 哪像 哪像 | unlike; in contrast to | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 说了算 說了算 | to have the final say; to be the one in charge | |
| 具 具 | tool, implement; draw up, write | |
| 每日 每日 | daily; (soup etc) of the day | |
| 取出 取出 | to take out; to extract; to draw out | |
| 油条 油條 | youtiao (deep-fried breadstick); slick and sly person |