Green Snake

Green Snake 1993

qīng shé

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.

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4.98 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
suǒ actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi 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) HSK 3
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}) HSK 3
gèng shàng céng lóu to take it up a notch; to bring it up a level Idiom ∼HSK 2
shuō lái huà cháng start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly Idiom ∼HSK 2
bái tóu xié lǎo (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 ∼HSK 2
wǎng kāi miàn open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly; to give one's opponent a way out; lenient treatment Idiom ∼HSK 2
Bān mén nòng to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 2
jiǎ de bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
nán shòu to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear Xiehouyu HSK 2
kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb Xiehouyu HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
tǐng 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 HSK 2
to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels Colloquialism HSK 2
Huáng Yellow River or Huang He Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
西 西 Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county, northwest Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
cóng jīn hòu from now on; henceforward ∼HSK 2
greatly desire, anxiously hope ∼HSK 2
qiān nián millennium ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
dào héng skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5] ∼HSK 2
shéi zhī who would have thought; unexpectedly ∼HSK 2
Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
zhù help, aid, assist ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
yāo sinister appearance; monster-like appearance ∼HSK 2
chuán jiā person who lives and makes a living on a boat; boatman; boat dweller ∼HSK 2
shēn body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 ∼HSK 2
míng zhī to be fully aware of; to know perfectly well ∼HSK 2
shǐ begin, start; then, only then ∼HSK 2
jiǎo xià under the foot ∼HSK 2
shēng a way to make a living; a way to survive; a way out of a predicament ∼HSK 2
must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot ∼HSK 2
biàn huí to revert; to change back into ∼HSK 2
zhù zuǐ to hold one's tongue; Shut up! ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
shí real, true; honest, sincere ∼HSK 2
prefecture; prefect; government ∼HSK 2
néng impossible; cannot; not able ∼HSK 2
cái by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! ∼HSK 2
jiǔ to drink (alcohol) ∼HSK 2
zhǐ not only; not merely ∼HSK 2
jiē zhù to catch (sth thrown etc); to receive (sth given); to accept ∼HSK 2
zhǐ 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply ∼HSK 2
admit, take, receive, accept ∼HSK 2