The Informer 1980
金手指
Wang Chung plays the standard level-headed cop in charge of a rag-tag bunch of misfits and stereotypes (the coward, the playboy, etc.) who are after a drug runner. After their informant is killed, the team turns to a former Triad member (Danny Lee) to infiltrate the gang and bring the big boss down.
Vocabulary
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| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 凶手 兇手 | murderer; assassin | |
| 看好 看好 | to keep an eye on | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 企图 企圖 | to attempt; to try; attempt | |
| 凶 兇 | terrible; fearful | |
| 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 | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 摩托车 摩托車 | (loanword) motorbike; motorcycle | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 机关 機關 | mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 总部 總部 | general headquarters | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 厕所 廁所 | toilet; lavatory | |
| 肺 肺 | lung | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 档 檔 | official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] | |
| 主持人 主持人 | TV or radio presenter; host; anchor | |
| 赌 賭 | to bet; to gamble | |
| 露 露 | to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose | |
| 嗨 嗨 | oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) | |
| 至于 至於 | as for; as to; to go so far as to | |
| 档案 檔案 | file; record; archive | |
| 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 | |
| 踢 踢 | to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 泡 泡 | puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 据 㨿 | used in 据 | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 马马虎虎 馬馬虎虎 | careless; casual; vague; not so bad; so-so; tolerable; fair | Idiom |