A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation 1997
小倩
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.
Vocabulary
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| 彼此 彼此 | each other; one another | |
| 为止 為止 | until; (used in combination with words like 到 or 至 in constructs of the form 到...到...为止) | |
| 撞 撞 | to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident | |
| 逃 逃 | to escape; to run away; to flee | |
| 滚 滾 | to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost! | |
| 可惜 可惜 | it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately | |
| 吐 吐 | to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances) | |
| 可怜 可憐 | pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 厉害 厲害 | (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent | |
| 皮肤 皮膚 | skin | |
| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 记忆 記憶 | to remember; to recall; memory | |
| 戏 戲 | trick; drama; play; show | |
| 运 運 | to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate | |
| 难以 難以 | hard to (predict, imagine etc) | |
| 愿 願 | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing | |
| 幅 幅 | width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures | |
| 疯狂 瘋狂 | crazy; frenzied; wild | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 居然 居然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to | |
| 即使 即使 | even if; even though | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem | |
| 哈 哈 | abbr. for 哈萨克斯坦, Kazakhstan; abbr. for 哈尔滨, Harbin | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 控制 控制 | to control | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 移山倒海 移山倒海 | lit. to move mountains and drain seas; to transform nature | Idiom |
| 早出晚归 早出晚歸 | to leave early and return late (idiom) | Idiom |
| 就地正法 就地正法 | to execute on the spot (idiom); summary execution; to carry out the law on the spot | Idiom |
| 五光十色 五光十色 | (idiom) bright and multicolored; of rich variety; dazzling; glitzy | Idiom |
| 沉鱼落雁 沉魚落雁 | lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts | Idiom |
| 天各一方 天各一方 | (of relatives or friends) to live far apart from each other | Idiom |
| 大而无当 大而無當 | grandiose but impractical (idiom); large but of no real use | Idiom |
| 无法无天 無法無天 | (idiom) defiant of the law and lacking any sense of morality; lawless; out of control; unruly | Xiehouyu |
| 热闹 熱鬧 | bustling with noise and excitement; lively | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 脱光 脫光 | to strip naked; to strip nude; (coll.) to find oneself a partner | Colloquialism |
| 尾巴 尾巴 | tail; colloquial pr. [yǐ ba] | Colloquialism |