A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella 1995
大话西游之大圣娶亲
This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 事与愿违 事與願違 | things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom) | Idiom |
| 聪明伶俐 聰明伶俐 | (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted | Idiom |
| 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 | lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others | Idiom |
| 妖魔鬼怪 妖魔鬼怪 | demons and ghosts | Idiom |
| 童叟无欺 童叟無欺 | cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously; Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. | Idiom |
| 手下留情 手下留情 | lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me; Do not judge me too harshly.; Look favorably on my humble efforts. | Idiom |
| 万寿无疆 萬壽無疆 | may you enjoy boundless longevity (idiom); long may you live | Idiom |
| 郎才女貌 郎才女貌 | talented man and beautiful woman; ideal couple | Idiom |
| 金屋藏娇 金屋藏嬌 | a golden house to keep one's mistress (idiom); a magnificent house built for a beloved woman | Idiom |
| 同心协力 同心協力 | to work with a common purpose (idiom); to make concerted efforts; to pull together; to work as one | Idiom |
| 为非作歹 為非作歹 | to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor; evildoer; to perpetrate outrages | Idiom |
| 光阴似箭 光陰似箭 | time flies like an arrow (idiom); How time flies! | Idiom |
| 混水摸鱼 混水摸魚 | to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain; also written 渾水摸魚|浑水摸鱼 | Idiom |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 双喜临门 雙喜臨門 | two simultaneous happy events in the family | Xiehouyu |
| 装蒜 裝蒜 | to act stupid; to play dumb; to pretend to not know | Xiehouyu |
| 迷迷糊糊 迷迷糊糊 | in a daze; bewildered | Xiehouyu |
| 苦不堪言 苦不堪言 | to suffer unspeakable misery; indescribably painful; hellish | Xiehouyu |
| 无穷无尽 無窮無盡 | endless; boundless; infinite | Xiehouyu |
| 臭屁 臭屁 | (coll.) self-important; puffed up | Colloquialism |
| 讨小 討小 | (coll.) to take a concubine | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 晶晶 晶晶 | glistening; gleaming; lustrous | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 仙子 仙子 | fairy | |
| 宝剑 寶劍 | (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one) | |
| 西经 西經 | west longitude | |
| 贤弟 賢弟 | worthy younger brother | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
| 如来 如來 | tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc) | |
| 如意郎君 如意郎君 | ideal husband; Mr. Right | |
| 大仙 大仙 | Great Immortal | |
| 仰慕 仰慕 | to admire | |
| 姻缘 姻緣 | a marriage predestined by fate | |
| 善哉 善哉 | well said! (Buddhist) | |
| 为师 為師 | as your teacher | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 磨豆腐 磨豆腐 | to grumble; to chatter away incessantly | |
| 凡心 凡心 | reluctance to leave this world; heart set on the mundane | |
| 仙界 仙界 | world of the immortals; a fairyland; a paradise | |
| 替天行道 替天行道 | 替: change, replace, substitute for · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial · 行: go; walk; move, travel; circulate · 道: path, road, street; method, way | |
| 啰嗦 囉嗦 | variant of | |
| 尿尿 尿尿 | to pee | |
| 中招 中招 | senior high school enrollment | |
| 充军 充軍 | to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) | |
| 昏倒 昏倒 | to faint | |
| 不顾一切 不顧一切 | (idiom) to disregard all negative considerations; to cast aside all concerns | |
| 情欲 情慾 | lust; desire; sensual |