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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| 糟了 糟了 | gosh!; oh no!; darn! | |
| 巴掌 巴掌 | palm of the hand; classifier: slap | |
| 遗 遺 | lose; articles lost; omit | |
| 姑 姑 | paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary) | |
| 伸长 伸長 | to stretch; to extend | |
| 哈啰 哈囉 | hello (loanword) | |
| 公公 公公 | husband's father; father-in-law; grandpa; grandad; (old) form of address for a eunuch | |
| 施舍 施捨 | to give in charity; to give alms (to the poor) | |
| 楞 楞 | used for Ceylon in Buddhist texts | |
| 声带 聲帶 | vocal cords; vocal folds; (motion picture) soundtrack | |
| 超级市场 超級市場 | supermarket | |
| 金币 金幣 | gold coin | |
| 桂 桂 | cassia or cinnamon | |
| 谈恋爱 談戀愛 | to be in a romantic relationship; to go steady; to be dating | |
| 体统 體統 | decorum; propriety; arrangement or form (of piece of writing) | |
| 下巴 下巴 | chin | |
| 可可 可可 | (loanword) cocoa | |
| 魔 魔 | demon | |
| 指模 指模 | fingerprint; thumbprint; also written | |
| 不可靠 不可靠 | unreliable | |
| 盔 盔 | helmet; bowl; basin | |
| 震荡 震盪 | to shake up; to jolt; to vibrate; to oscillate; to fluctuate | |
| 芪 芪 | celery | |
| 撞伤 撞傷 | bruise; bump | |
| 君 君 | lord, sir | |
| 游手好闲 遊手好閑 | to idle about | |
| 私生子 私生子 | illegitimate son | |
| 怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 | How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? | |
| 听清 聽清 | to hear clearly | |
| 小老婆 小老婆 | concubine; mistress; (dialect) woman | |
| 奴才 奴才 | slave; fig. flunkey | |
| 口出狂言 口出狂言 | to speak conceited nonsense; to come out with arrogant claptrap | |
| 铡 鍘 | sickle for cutting grass or hay | |
| 斩首 斬首 | to behead; to decapitate | |
| 童 童 | boy, child | |
| 碍 礙 | obstruct, hinder, block, deter | |
| 减价 減價 | to cut prices; to discount; to mark down; price cutting | |
| 恨人 恨人 | provoking; exasperating | |
| 腊肠 臘腸 | sausage | |
| 胆固醇 膽固醇 | cholesterol | |
| 居 居 | reside | |
| 可好 可好 | good or not?; luckily; fortuitously | |
| 年青 年青 | youthful | |
| 怎能 怎能 | how can | |
| 靓 靚 | make up face; ornament; quiet | |
| 品味 品味 | to sample; to taste; to appreciate; one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste | |
| 见面礼 見面禮 | gift given to sb when meeting them for the first time | |
| 蛔虫 蛔蟲 | roundworm; ascarid; (esp.) Ascaris lumbricoides, a human parasite; (fig.) person who knows what another person is thinking; a mind reader | |
| 杏 杏 | apricot; almond | |
| 三头肌 三頭肌 | triceps muscle; triceps brachii |