King of Comedy 1999
喜剧之王
Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village's community center.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 孤独 孤獨 | lonely; solitary | |
| 晕 暈 | confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 全新 全新 | all new; completely new | |
| 餐 餐 | meal; to eat; classifier for meals | |
| 形 形 | to appear; to look; form; shape | |
| 因素 因素 | element; factor | |
| 托 託 | prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) | |
| 足 足 | excessive | |
| 闭 閉 | to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct | |
| 挖 挖 | to dig; to excavate; to scoop out | |
| 本身 本身 | itself; in itself; per se | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 剧 劇 | theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 最佳 最佳 | optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) | |
| 情绪 情緒 | mood; state of mind; moodiness | |
| 股 股 | thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 原 原 | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 犯罪 犯罪 | to commit a crime; crime; offense | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 酩酊大醉 酩酊大醉 | (idiom) dead drunk; plastered; as drunk as a lord | Idiom |
| 马马虎虎 馬馬虎虎 | careless; casual; vague; not so bad; so-so; tolerable; fair | Idiom |
| 混蛋 混蛋 | scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch | Xiehouyu |
| 滚开 滾開 | (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! | Xiehouyu |
| 迟了 遲了 | late | Xiehouyu |
| 背黑锅 背黑鍋 | to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 秒 秒 | second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly | Colloquialism |
| 娟 娟 | beautiful, graceful | |
| 初恋 初戀 | first love | |
| 茄 茄 | eggplant | |
| 尹 尹 | govern; oversee; director | |
| 鸽 鴿 | pigeon, dove; Columba species (various) |