"Beijing Meets Seattle" is currently being screened. The male protagonist Frank, played by Wu Xiubo in the movie, has always been called "DB". So what does DB mean? Why is Frank called DB? Let's take a look at the cultural connotation of "DB" with "Wen Jiajia" Tang Wei. DB is an abbreviation, which can have many meanings, such as the database familiar to IT people, such as don't bother, which is common in American TV series, such as the American slang Dumb Bunny, cute fool... Of course, you can also understand it as It's David Backham's nickname. Now let's talk about the meaning of DB in the movie "Beijing Meets Seattle". In the movie, "Wen Jiajia" Tang Wei explains DB as Dead Beat, a person who eats soft rice. The definition of dead beat in the "Oxford English Dictionary" is "A worthless idler who sponges on his friends; a sponger, loafer", which means "an idler who lives on his friends." An extended usage is DBD, which means deadbeat dad, which means an irresponsible father, especially a father who neglects parental responsibilities, especially one who does not pay child support. Obviously, whether he is an "idle person" or an "irresponsible father", he is far from the Frank in the movie. As for why dead beat can be expressed as "a freeloader" or "an idle person", we have to start with the meaning of beat. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the United States in the 19th century, beat also meant "An idle, worthless, or shiftless fellow." When the word dead is used as an adverb, it can mean completely, completely (completely, used to strengthen the degree). Therefore, dead beat has become an idle person. There are three spelling forms of dead beat, dead beat, dead-beat and deadbeat. There is no clear distinction between these three spelling methods, and all can be used. The more commonly used one is deadbeat. Dead beat can also be used as an adjective, meaning "exhausted", and the English explanation is "defeated, exhausted". The British writer Charles Dickens has an example sentence about dead beat indicating exhaustion in "Martin-Joseph" - Pull off my boots for me... I am quite knocked up. Dead beat. (Pull off my boots for me... I am quite knocked up. Dead beat.) I'm so exhausted.) More examples: He's a deadbeat; don't count on getting that money back. He's a debtor, don't count on getting that money back. . But even if he was a deadbeat dad and a bit of a nut, Duffy had a dream as big as the Pacific Ocean and little could deter him. Big, almost nothing could stop him from pursuing his dreams.