The Underdog Knight 2008
硬汉
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 失踪 失蹤 | to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for | |
| 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 | |
| 拳 拳 | fist; boxing | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 情报 情報 | information; intelligence | |
| 释放 釋放 | to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 坚韧不拔 堅韌不拔 | firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding | Idiom |
| 千锤百炼 千錘百鍊 | after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom); the vicissitudes of life | Idiom |
| 手下留情 手下留情 | lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me; Do not judge me too harshly.; Look favorably on my humble efforts. | Idiom |
| 兜圈子 兜圈子 | to encircle; to go around; to circle; to beat about the bush | Xiehouyu |
| 耍花招 耍花招 | to play tricks on sb | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 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)? | |
| 不清 不清 | unclear | |
| 负伤 負傷 | to be wounded; to sustain an injury | |
| 岳家 岳家 | wife's parents' home | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 入伍 入伍 | to enter the army; to enlist | |
| 缺氧 缺氧 | lacking oxygen; anaerobic | |
| 一程 一程 | a journey | |
| 上浮 上浮 | to float up | |
| 滴水 滴水 | water drop; dripping water | |
| 废铁 廢鐵 | scrap iron | |
| 保卫祖国 保衛祖國 | to defend one's country | |
| 为人民服务 為人民服務 | Serve the People!, CCP political slogan | |
| 原定 原定 | originally planned; originally determined | |
| 筹委会 籌委會 | organizing committee | |
| 铸成 鑄成 | to cast in metal; (fig.) to forge; to fashion | |
| 绑匪 綁匪 | kidnapper | |
| 韧带 韌帶 | ligament | |
| 增援 增援 | to reinforce | |
| 嚷嚷 嚷嚷 | to argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known; to reproach | |
| 拜佛 拜佛 | to worship Buddha | |
| 刑警 刑警 | criminal police | |
| 刑拘 刑拘 | to detain as criminal; criminal detention; abbr. for | |
| 饶了 饒了 | to spare; to forgive | |
| 灌水 灌水 | to irrigate; to pour water into; to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping); to cook the books; to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums | |
| 吸取教训 吸取教訓 | to draw a lesson (from a setback) | |
| 探照灯 探照燈 | searchlight |