All's Well, End's Well '97 1997
97家有喜事
Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very annoyed about this. The relationship between father and son is thus affected. So on Kung's birthday, his two brothers decide to play a joke on him. They trick him into believing he has won the lottery. Kung is so happy that he spends a tremendous amount of money. When he realizes he is in huge debt, he pretends to go insane and the whole family believes him.
Vocabulary
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| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 棒 棒 | stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 哈 哈 | abbr. for 哈萨克斯坦, Kazakhstan; abbr. for 哈尔滨, Harbin | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 学海无涯 學海無涯 | sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn; ars longa, vita brevis | Idiom |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 冷静 冷靜 | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet | Xiehouyu |
| 轻松 輕鬆 | light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously | Xiehouyu |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 老公 老公 | (coll.) husband | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 帅 帥 | (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 六合彩 六合彩 | Mark Six (Hong Kong lotto game) | Proper Noun |
| 省港澳 省港澳 | abbr. for the economic region of Guangdong Province (or Guangzhou), Hong Kong and Macao | Proper Noun |
| 包公 包公 | Lord Bao or Judge Bao, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty | Proper Noun |
| 百事可乐 百事可樂 | Pepsi | Proper Noun |
| 新界 新界 | New Territories (in Hong Kong) | Proper Noun |
| 贝多芬 貝多芬 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer | Proper Noun |
| 蒙娜丽莎 蒙娜麗莎 | Mona Lisa | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 大陆妹 大陸妹 | (in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao) girl from the mainland; (Tw) Fushan lettuce | Proper Noun |
| 武功 武功 | Wugong County in Xianyang, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 包青天 包青天 | Bao Qingtian, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty | Proper Noun |
| 暖暖 暖暖 | Nuannuan District of Keelung City, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 喜马拉雅山 喜馬拉雅山 | Himalayas | Proper Noun |
| 周星驰 周星馳 | Stephen Chow (1962-), Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director, known for his mo lei tau movies | Proper Noun |
| 茱莉亚 茱莉亞 | Julia (name) | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 洲 洲 | continent; island; islet | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 慕 慕 | long for, desire; admire | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 头奖 頭獎 | first prize | |
| 幸会 幸會 | nice to meet you | |
| 屎 屎 | excrement, shit, dung | |
| 腰围 腰圍 | waist measurement; girth | |
| 预 預 | prepare, arrange; in advance | |
| 郎 郎 | gentleman, young man; husband |