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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| 看得起 看得起 | to show respect for; to think highly of | |
| 用得着 用得著 | to be able to use; useable; to have a use for; (in a question) to be necessary to | |
| 霞 霞 | rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset | |
| 徒弟 徒弟 | apprentice; disciple | |
| 强盗 強盜 | to rob (with force); bandit; robber | |
| 一道 一道 | together | |
| 昏 昏 | muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness | |
| 不至于 不至於 | unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as | |
| 师父 師父 | used for 师傅 (in Taiwan); master; qualified worker | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 片刻 片刻 | short period of time; a moment | |
| 医药 醫藥 | medical care and medicines; medicine (drug); medical; pharmaceutical | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 舌头 舌頭 | tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information | |
| 传出 傳出 | to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve) | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 凶手 兇手 | murderer; assassin | |
| 串 串 | to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across | |
| 扭 扭 | to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 肝 肝 | liver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game); (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy | |
| 凶 兇 | terrible; fearful | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 消灭 消滅 | to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory) | |
| 金钱 金錢 | money; currency | |
| 灭 滅 | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! | |
| 机关 機關 | mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick | |
| 查看 查看 | to look over; to examine; to check up; to ferret out | |
| 刮 刮 | to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 一番 一番 | Some | |
| 佛 佛 | Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 扎 扎 | used in 挣扎 | |
| 肺 肺 | lung | |
| 无关 無關 | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) | |
| 章 章 | chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order | |
| 天堂 天堂 | paradise; heaven | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 孤独 孤獨 | lonely; solitary | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 护 護 | to protect | |
| 嗨 嗨 | oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) | |
| 心脏 心臟 | heart |