The Grandmaster 2013
一代宗师
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
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Vocabulary
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| 挡 擋 | to resist; to obstruct; to hinder; to keep off; to block (a blow); to get in the way of; cover; gear (e.g. in a car's transmission) | |
| 今日 今日 | today | |
| 厅 廳 | (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department | |
| 剪 剪 | scissors; shears; clippers; to cut with scissors; to trim; to wipe out or exterminate | |
| 当年 當年 | in those days; then; in those years; during that time | |
| 一句话 一句話 | in a word; in short | |
| 青 青 | abbr. for 海, Qinghai Province | |
| 回头 回頭 | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by | |
| 本人 本人 | I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned | |
| 达成 達成 | to reach (an agreement); to accomplish | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 说法 說法 | to expound Buddhist teachings | |
| 一辈子 一輩子 | (for) a lifetime | |
| 凭 憑 | to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof | |
| 为止 為止 | until; (used in combination with words like 到 or 至 in constructs of the form 到...到...为止) | |
| 滚 滾 | to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost! | |
| 可惜 可惜 | it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately | |
| 屋 屋 | (bound form) house; (bound form) room | |
| 中央 中央 | central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state) | |
| 厉害 厲害 | (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent | |
| 剩下 剩下 | to remain; to be left over | |
| 戏 戲 | trick; drama; play; show | |
| 愿 願 | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing | |
| 邀请 邀請 | to invite; invitation | |
| 丢 丟 | to lose; to put aside; to throw | |
| 之中 之中 | inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 众口难调 眾口難調 | it's difficult to please everyone (idiom) | Idiom |
| 寒酸 寒酸 | wretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc) | Xiehouyu |
| 潮 潮 | tide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy; (coll.) inferior; substandard | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 佛山 佛山 | Foshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 叶问 葉問 | Yip Man (1893-1972), martial arts practitioner, master of Bruce Lee | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 武功 武功 | Wugong County in Xianyang, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 两广 兩廣 | the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (traditional) | Proper Noun |
| 德里 德里 | Delhi; New Delhi, capital of India; same as | Proper Noun |