The Bodyguard from Beijing 1994
中南海保镖
A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched to help two Hong Kong cops protect the witness.
Vocabulary
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| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 方 方 | square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter | |
| 位置 位置 | position; place; seat | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 表示 表示 | to express; to show; to say; to state; to indicate; to mean | |
| 法律 法律 | law | |
| 包括 包括 | to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of | |
| 严重 嚴重 | grave; serious; severe; critical | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 定 定 | to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to order | |
| 以及 以及 | as well as; too; and | |
| 处 處 | to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 选择 選擇 | to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative | |
| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 不值钱 不值錢 | of little value | Xiehouyu |
| 乱来 亂來 | to act recklessly; to mess around | Xiehouyu |
| 死要面子 死要面子 | to regard face as all-important; to consider loss of face unthinkable | Xiehouyu |
| 痛苦 痛苦 | pain; suffering; painful | Xiehouyu |
| 放血 放血 | (TCM) to practice bloodletting; (medicine) to perform phlebotomy; (coll.) to make sb bleed; to inflict grievous wounds; (fig.) to cough up a large amount of money; (fig.) to reduce prices drastically | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 正阳 正陽 | Zhengyang county in Zhumadian, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 詹姆斯 詹姆斯 | James (name); LeBron James (1984-), NBA player | Proper Noun |
| 中国城 中國城 | Chinatown | Proper Noun |
| 向阳 向陽 | Xiangyang district of Kiamusze or Jiamusi city, Heilongjiang; Xiangyang district of Hegang city, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 朝阳 朝陽 | Chaoyang, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province; Chaoyang, a county in Chaoyang City, Liaoning; Chaoyang, an inner district of Beijing; Chaoyang, a district of Changchun City, Jilin; Chaoyang, a district of Shantou City, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 解放军 解放軍 | People's Liberation Army (PRC armed forces) | Proper Noun |
| 杨 楊 | willow, poplar, aspen; surname | |
| 保镖 保鏢 | bodyguard | |
| 梁 梁 | bridge; beam; rafters; surname | |
| 民 民 | people, subjects, citizens | |
| 耳 耳 | ear; merely, only; handle | |
| 生日快乐 生日快樂 | Happy birthday | |
| 怕死 怕死 | to be scared of dying | |
| 每个人 每個人 | everybody; everyone | |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 朱 朱 | cinnabar, vermilion; surname | |
| 人保 人保 | personal guarantee; to sign as guarantor | |
| 打死 打死 | to kill; to beat to death | |
| 下个星期 下個星期 | next week | |
| 记在心里 記在心裡 | to keep in mind; to store in one's heart; to remember perfectly | |
| 秀 秀 | ear of grain; flowering, luxuriant; refined, elegant, graceful | |
| 三代 三代 | three generations of a family; the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
| 点钟 點鐘 | (indicating time of day) o'clock | |
| 死者 死者 | the dead; the deceased |