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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| 背着 背著 | carrying on one's back | |
| 上当 上當 | taken in (by sb's deceit); to be fooled; to be duped | |
| 出面 出面 | to appear personally; to step in; to step forth; to show up | |
| 打发 打發 | to dispatch sb to do sth; to make sb leave; to pass (the time); (old) to make arrangements; (old) to bestow (alms etc) | |
| 诸位 諸位 | (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs | |
| 一代 一代 | generation | |
| 父子 父子 | father and son | |
| 师父 師父 | used for 师傅 (in Taiwan); master; qualified worker | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 一贯 一貫 | consistent; constant; from start to finish; all along; persistent | |
| 翼 翼 | surname Yi; alternative name for 绛 capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC) | |
| 创建 創建 | to found; to establish | |
| 总监 總監 | head; director (of an organizational unit); (police) commissioner; inspector-general; rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration | |
| 应急 應急 | to respond to an emergency; to meet a contingency; (attributive) emergency | |
| 牢 牢 | firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 用心 用心 | motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful | |
| 炮 炮 | to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 债 債 | debt | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 融入 融入 | to blend into; to integrate; to assimilate; to merge | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 支撑 支撐 | to prop up; to support; strut; brace | |
| 捐 捐 | to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 铺 鋪 | to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker | |
| 从没 從沒 | never (in the past); never did | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 灭 滅 | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown | |
| 机关 機關 | mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick | |
| 蹲 蹲 | to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere) | |
| 罢了 罷了 | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) | |
| 主角 主角 | leading role; lead; protagonist | |
| 扎 扎 | used in 挣扎 | |
| 大师 大師 | great master; master | |
| 道歉 道歉 | to apologize | |
| 炸 炸 | to deep fry; Taiwan pr. [zhà] | |
| 涉及 涉及 | to involve; to touch upon (a topic) | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 露 露 | to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose | |
| 闭 閉 | to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides |