A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box 1995
大话西游之月光宝盒
When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
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Vocabulary
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| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 顺便 順便 | conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 脖子 脖子 | neck | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 抢劫 搶劫 | to rob; looting | |
| 烤 烤 | to roast; to bake; to broil | |
| 拳 拳 | fist; boxing | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 眼神 眼神 | expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect) | |
| 勒 勒 | to rein in; to compel; to force; to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead; bridle; (physics) abbr. for 斯, lux | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 曲 曲 | bent; crooked; wrong | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 乌烟瘴气 烏煙瘴氣 | billowing smoke (idiom); foul atmosphere; (fig.) murky atmosphere; in a turmoil | Idiom |
| 人模狗样 人模狗樣 | (idiom) to pose; to put on airs; Taiwan pr. [ren2 mo2 gou3 yang4] | Idiom |
| 如雷贯耳 如雷貫耳 | lit. like thunder piercing the ear; a well-known reputation (idiom) | Idiom |
| 以毒攻毒 以毒攻毒 | to cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief; to fight fire with fire | Idiom |
| 忍辱偷生 忍辱偷生 | to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom) | Idiom |
| 原形毕露 原形畢露 | original identity fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth | Idiom |
| 长夜漫漫 長夜漫漫 | endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering | Idiom |
| 雕虫小技 雕蟲小技 | insignificant talent; skill of no high order; minor accomplishment | Idiom |
| 罪恶滔天 罪惡滔天 | (idiom) to have committed heinous crimes | Idiom |
| 大彻大悟 大徹大悟 | to achieve supreme enlightenment or nirvana (Buddhism) | Idiom |
| 冤家路窄 冤家路窄 | lit. for enemies, the road is narrow (idiom); fig. rivals inevitably cross paths | Idiom |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 装蒜 裝蒜 | to act stupid; to play dumb; to pretend to not know | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 泥巴 泥巴 | (coll.) mud | Colloquialism |
| 瞎掰 瞎掰 | (coll.) to talk nonsense; to fool around | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |