A Chinese Tall Story 2005
情癫大圣
The young monk Taka and his three disciples are captured by a demonic tree. Taka manages to escape thanks to the magic stick of Monkey King and decided to go free his companions. En route, he encounters a strange ally called Meiyan, a girl who is half-human and half monster. As Taka and his new friend set off on a fantastic adventure they will face many hardships and battles and may very well decide the fate of humanity and the entire universe...
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Vocabulary
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| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 黑白分明 黑白分明 | lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom); fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong | Idiom |
| 千千万万 千千萬萬 | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands | Idiom |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 你个头 你個頭 | (coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in "expert", my ass!) | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 东海 東海 | East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 掉下 掉下 | to drop down; to fall | |
| 没有关系 沒有關係 | it doesn't matter | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 长生不老 長生不老 | (idiom) to live forever and never grow old | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 多嘴 多嘴 | talkative; to speak out of turn; to blab; to shoot one's mouth off; rumors fly | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 那种 那種 | that kind of | |
| 术 術 | art, skill, special feat; method, technique | |
| 讲道 講道 | to preach; a sermon | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 片名 片名 | movie title | |
| 千年 千年 | millennium | |
| 有成 有成 | (literary) to achieve success | |
| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 十万 十萬 | hundred thousand | |
| 妖气 妖氣 | sinister appearance; monster-like appearance | |
| 然 然 | yes, certainly; pledge, promise | |
| 唬弄 唬弄 | to fool; to deceive | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 不知去向 不知去向 | whereabouts unknown; gone missing | |
| 海里 海里 | nautical mile | |
| 早知道 早知道 | If I had known earlier... | |
| 要得 要得 | good; fine | |
| 不该 不該 | should not; to owe nothing | |
| 求人 求人 | to ask for help; to ask a favor; to recruit talented people | |
| 可就 可就 | certainly | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 |