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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| 假装 假裝 | to feign; to pretend | |
| 陌生 陌生 | strange; unfamiliar | |
| 惩罚 懲罰 | penalty; punishment; to punish | |
| 浪 浪 | wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated; to stroll; to ramble | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 欺骗 欺騙 | to deceive; to cheat | |
| 免 免 | to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 宇宙 宇宙 | universe; cosmos | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 甩 甩 | to throw; to fling; to swing; to leave behind; to throw off; to dump (sb) | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 抢劫 搶劫 | to rob; looting | |
| 致 緻 | (bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite | |
| 拳 拳 | fist; boxing | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 眼神 眼神 | expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect) | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 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) | |
| 性感 性感 | sex appeal; eroticism; sexuality; sexy | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 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) | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 自相残杀 自相殘殺 | to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife | Idiom |
| 冷若冰霜 冷若冰霜 | as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid | Idiom |
| 悬崖勒马 懸崖勒馬 | lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time | Idiom |
| 后悔莫及 後悔莫及 | too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event. | Idiom |
| 执迷不悟 執迷不悟 | to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom) | Idiom |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 臭屁 臭屁 | (coll.) self-important; puffed up | Colloquialism |
| 皮痒 皮癢 | (coll.) to need a spanking | Colloquialism |
| 小样 小樣 | galley proof (printing); unimpressive; (coll.) little guy (mild insult also used as an affectionate term) | 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)? | |
| 正邪 正邪 | opposition between vital energy and pathogeny (TCM) | |
| 吐丝 吐絲 | (of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk | |
| 经文 經文 | scripture text | |
| 感化 感化 | corrective influence; to reform (a criminal); redemption (of a sinner); to influence (a malefactor to a better life); to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example | |
| 副标题 副標題 | subtitle (of a book etc); subheading | |
| 蜈蚣 蜈蚣 | centipede | |
| 老孙 老孫 | this old Sun (Wukong's self-reference) |