Let's Have a Baby 1985
替枪老豆
A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 岂有此理 豈有此理 | how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous; ridiculous; absurd | Idiom |
| 后顾之忧 後顧之憂 | fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything" | Idiom |
| 自始至终 自始至終 | from start to finish (idiom) | Idiom |
| 里程碑 里程碑 | milestone | Idiom |
| 内行 內行 | expert; adept; experienced; an expert; a professional | Xiehouyu |
| 泄气 洩氣 | to leak (gas); to be discouraged; to despair; (disparaging) pathetic; to vent one's anger; (of a tire) to be flat | Xiehouyu |
| 外行 外行 | layman; amateur | Xiehouyu |
| 冤枉 冤枉 | to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly; injustice; wronged; not worthwhile | Xiehouyu |
| 不理 不理 | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore | Xiehouyu |
| 丢人 丟人 | to lose face | Xiehouyu |
| 俗语 俗語 | common saying; proverb; colloquial speech | Colloquialism |
| 愣 愣 | to look distracted; to stare blankly; distracted; blank; (coll.) unexpectedly; rash; rashly | Colloquialism |
| 揍 揍 | to hit; to beat (sb); (coll.) to smash (sth) | Colloquialism |
| 受过 受過 | to take the blame (for sb else) | |
| 肥沃 肥沃 | fertile | |
| 衰弱 衰弱 | weak; feeble | |
| 每逢 每逢 | every time; on each occasion; whenever | |
| 伯父 伯父 | father's elder brother; term of respect for older man | |
| 华裔 華裔 | ethnic Chinese; non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry | |
| 忌讳 忌諱 | taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from | |
| 上火 上火 | to get angry; to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM) | |
| 海藻 海藻 | seaweed; marine alga; kelp | |
| 封建 封建 | system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic | |
| 凑巧 湊巧 | fortuitously; luckily; as chance has it | |
| 岳母 岳母 | wife's mother, mother-in-law | |
| 祖宗 祖宗 | ancestor; forebear | |
| 含蓄 含蓄 | to contain; to hold; (of a person or style etc) reserved; restrained; (of words, writings) full of hidden meaning; implicit; veiled (criticism) | |
| 对白 對白 | dialogue (in a movie or a play) | |
| 一连 一連 | in a row; in succession; running | |
| 俗话 俗話 | common saying; proverb | |
| 修长 修長 | slender; lanky; tall and thin | |
| 作对 作對 | to set oneself against; to oppose; to make a pair | |
| 端正 端正 | upright; regular; proper; correct | |
| 竟敢 竟敢 | to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to | |
| 替身 替身 | stand-in; substitute; body double; stuntman; scapegoat; fall guy; to stand in for sb else | |
| 念书 念書 | to read; to study | |
| 展览会 展覽會 | exhibition; show | |
| 吃亏 吃虧 | to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately | |
| 逼真 逼真 | lifelike; true to life; distinctly; clearly | |
| 秘方 祕方 | secret recipe | |
| 吓唬 嚇唬 | to scare; to frighten | |
| 麻将 麻將 | mahjong | |
| 高低 高低 | height; altitude (aviation); pitch (music); ups and downs (success or failure); whether sth is right or wrong; comparative strength, weight, depth, stature; (spoken interjection) anyway, whatever; eventually, in the end | |
| 惊险 驚險 | perilous; touch-and-go; nerve-racking; suspenseful | |
| 晒太阳 曬太陽 | to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc); to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it) | |
| 冲刺 衝刺 | (sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash; to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches | |
| 责备 責備 | to blame; to criticize; condemnation; reproach | |
| 马力 馬力 | horsepower | |
| 启程 啟程 | to set out on a journey | |
| 复原 復原 | to restore (sth) to (its) former condition; to recover from illness; recovery |