Green Snake 1993
青蛇
Two snake spirits become human and learn about love and suffering. A monk discovers his own weaknesses and finds that morality is not as simple as he had thought.
Vocabulary
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| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 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}) | |
| 更上一层楼 更上一層樓 | to take it up a notch; to bring it up a level | Idiom |
| 说来话长 說來話長 | start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | Idiom |
| 白头偕老 白頭偕老 | (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part | Idiom |
| 网开一面 網開一面 | open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly; to give one's opponent a way out; lenient treatment | Idiom |
| 班门弄斧 班門弄斧 | to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom) | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 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 |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 黄河 黃河 | Yellow River or Huang He | Proper Noun |
| 西湖 西湖 | Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county, northwest Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 从今以后 從今以後 | from now on; henceforward | |
| 巴 巴 | greatly desire, anxiously hope | |
| 千年 千年 | millennium | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 道行 道行 | skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5] | |
| 谁知 誰知 | who would have thought; unexpectedly | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 助 助 | help, aid, assist | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 妖气 妖氣 | sinister appearance; monster-like appearance | |
| 船家 船家 | person who lives and makes a living on a boat; boatman; boat dweller | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 明知 明知 | to be fully aware of; to know perfectly well | |
| 始 始 | begin, start; then, only then | |
| 脚下 腳下 | under the foot | |
| 生路 生路 | a way to make a living; a way to survive; a way out of a predicament | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 变回 變回 | to revert; to change back into | |
| 住嘴 住嘴 | to hold one's tongue; Shut up! | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 喝酒 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) | |
| 不只 不只 | not only; not merely | |
| 接住 接住 | to catch (sth thrown etc); to receive (sth given); to accept | |
| 一只 一隻 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply | |
| 纳 納 | admit, take, receive, accept |