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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| 干 乾 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 放电 放電 | electrical discharge; (coll.) to lure; to entice | Colloquialism |
| 有病 有病 | to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 菜 菜 | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 说真的 說真的 | to tell the truth; honestly; in fact | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 小子 小子 | (literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation); (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) | |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 跟着 跟著 | to follow after; immediately afterwards | |
| 到了 到了 | at last; finally; in the end | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia | |
| 在那儿 在那兒 | (adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else); just...ing (and nothing else) | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 会不会 會不會 | (posing a question: whether sb, something) can or cannot?; is able to or not | |
| 出鞘 出鞘 | (of a sword etc) to unsheath | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 对了 對了 | Correct!; Oh, that's right,... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention); Oh, by the way,... | |
| 不想 不想 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise | |
| 一次 一次 | first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 班车 班車 | regular bus (service) | |
| 太好了 太好了 | very good | |
| 下一站 下一站 | the next stop (of a bus etc) | |
| 不到 不到 | not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than | |
| 在一起 在一起 | together | |
| 你我 你我 | you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) | |
| 还给 還給 | to return sth to sb | |
| 出家人 出家人 | monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist) |