The Enforcer 1995
给爸爸的信
An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 金属 金屬 | metal | |
| 枚 枚 | classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc; tree trunk; whip; wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old) | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 非法 非法 | illegal | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 装蒜 裝蒜 | to act stupid; to play dumb; to pretend to not know | Xiehouyu |
| 同归于尽 同歸於盡 | to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction | Xiehouyu |
| 神不知鬼不觉 神不知鬼不覺 | top secret; hush-hush | Xiehouyu |
| 野种 野種 | (derog.) illegitimate child; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 贱骨头 賤骨頭 | miserable wretch; contemptible individual | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 通缉犯 通緝犯 | wanted criminal; fugitive (from the law) | |
| 干你娘 幹你娘 | (Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother") | |
| 嫖妓 嫖妓 | to visit a prostitute | |
| 护身符 護身符 | amulet; protective talisman; charm | |
| 公海 公海 | the high seas; international waters | |
| 兜兜 兜兜 | an undergarment covering chest and abdomen | |
| 撒野 撒野 | to display shockingly bad behavior; to behave atrociously | |
| 饶命 饒命 | to spare sb's life | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 做功 做功 | (physics) to do work; non-vocal acting (in traditional Chinese opera) | |
| 长舌妇 長舌婦 | female gossip; busybody | |
| 白粉 白粉 | face powder; chalk powder; heroin | |
| 混进 混進 | to infiltrate; to sneak into | |
| 惯坏 慣壞 | to spoil (a child) | |
| 便宜货 便宜貨 | a bargain; cheap goods | |
| 打劫 打劫 | to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack | |
| 听命 聽命 | to obey an order; to take orders; to accept a state of affairs | |
| 殿后 殿後 | to bring up the rear | |
| 抢劫案 搶劫案 | robbery; holdup | |
| 驷马难追 駟馬難追 | a team of four horses cannot catch it (idiom); fig. what is said cannot be unsaid; a promise must be kept | |
| 偏要 偏要 | to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything | |
| 别理 別理 | don't get involved; ignore it!; don't have anything to do with (him, her etc); don't speak to | |
| 挨揍 捱揍 | to be beaten; to take a drubbing; buffeted; knocked about | |
| 过犯 過犯 | previous sins | |
| 不及格 不及格 | to fail; to flunk | |
| 注解 註解 | to annotate; annotation; comment; interpretation; to explain with notes; explanatory note | |
| 勾当 勾當 | shady business |