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kung fu

/kuhng -foo, koong/US // ˈkʌŋ ˈfu, ˈkʊŋ //

功夫,工夫,武功,武术

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an ancient Chinese method of self-defense by striking blows at vulnerable areas of an attacker's body using fluid movements of the hands and legs.

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Examples

  • Entertainment comes from DJs, dance troupes, kung fu associations and hip-hop artists Year of the Ox.

  • Then Abdul-Mateen’s character and Neo speak in a dojo, a recreation of another famous scene from the original film in which Reeves intoned, “I know kung fu” in the most Keanu Reeves way possible.

  • The versatile New York-based group, which features as many as 19 members, has only been around for two decades, but its music channels the great Fela Kuti — with a dash of kung fu teaching.

  • Admittedly, all this sounds pretty entertaining, rather like a kung fu or superhero film.

  • The show is loaded with beautifully shot, carefully choreographed sequences of magical kung-fu.

  • The basketball legend released his own dojo-inspired fighting game, Shaq Fu, in 1994.

  • By now I'm so overwrought with chi's and fu's and kong's and kung's that my eyes have about crossed.

  • Kung fu is not the name of a martial-arts form; it means 'something with diligent applications.'

  • A picture of him, an elderly man sporting a cap, Fu Manchu-style mustache, and sharp beard, hangs on the wall.

  • Note the original line: 'Ne fu fardee ne guignie'; and again in l. 2180: 'Mais ne te farde ne guigne.'

  • When Tu Fu's literary ability and poetical genius were made known to the Emperor, office and honours were bestowed on him.

  • Fu Shan was always some stuck on his own intellect, and at that time he thought he could play cards, but he couldn't.

  • Fu Shan smoked scented and sugared tobacco in a porcelain pipe with an ivory stem.

  • Fu Shan ain't sure what the old man's idea was, whether it was pure business or not.