Time and Tide 2000
顺流逆流
A streetwise young man becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He befriends a disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life anew. They find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, but their partnership ultimately can't last.
Vocabulary
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| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 数一数二 數一數二 | (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best; (idiom) to list one by one | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 对头 對頭 | correct; normal; to be on good terms with; on the right track; right | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 红磡 紅磡 | Hung Hom, a locality in Kowloon, Hong Kong | Proper Noun |
| 汕头 汕頭 | Shantou, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 斯 斯 | this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle | |
| 那种 那種 | that kind of | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 奥 奧 | mysterious, obscure, profound | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 干掉 幹掉 | to get rid of | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 生路 生路 | a way to make a living; a way to survive; a way out of a predicament | |
| 颜 顏 | face, facial appearance | |
| 下层 下層 | underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate | |
| 太平门 太平門 | emergency exit | |
| 警方 警方 | police | |
| 一只 一隻 | one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... | |
| 平手 平手 | (sports) draw; tie | |
| 杀人 殺人 | homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) | |
| 酒杯 酒杯 | wine cup | |
| 脸蛋 臉蛋 | cheek; face | |
| 草莓 草莓 | strawberry; (Tw) hickey; love bite | |
| 司 司 | take charge of, control, manage; officer | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 出气 出氣 | to vent one's anger; to breathe out; to exhale | |
| 看医生 看醫生 | to visit a doctor | |
| 借钱 借錢 | to borrow money; to lend money | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 往外 往外 | out; outbound; departing | |
| 像差 像差 | (optics) aberration |