Lover's Destiny 1975
新啼笑因缘
Director Chu Yuan was one of the new breed of directors at Shaw who raised the bar of martial arts films, by adding compelling storylines and a good dose of drama. Despite being without his regular cohorts Ku Lung and Ti Lung here, Chu shows his master stroke as he delves into the dastardly ways of evil warlords in China back in the 1910’s. Drama and action both take centre-stage as Tsung Hua and Ching Li fall prey to a lecherous general (Stanley Feng Tsui-fan) who rapes and forces the latter to become his concubine. With the help of two street performers (the deft and agile Chen Kuan-tai and Shih Szu) he once helped, Tsung hatches a plot to save his beloved – with deadly consequences.
Vocabulary
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| 关于 關於 | pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 水性杨花 水性楊花 | fickle (woman) | Idiom |
| 区区小事 區區小事 | trivial matter; trifle | Idiom |
| 心上人 心上人 | sweetheart; one's beloved | Xiehouyu |
| 送死 送死 | to throw away one's life | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 全城 全城 | whole city | Proper Noun |
| 城外 城外 | outside of a city | Proper Noun |
| 范 範 | surname; bee-like insect | |
| 少爷 少爺 | son of the boss; young master of the house; your son (honorific) | |
| 秀 秀 | ear of grain; flowering, luxuriant; refined, elegant, graceful | |
| 千金 千金 | thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold; money and riches; (honorific) invaluable (support); (honorific) daughter | |
| 前因 前因 | antecedents | |
| 相思 相思 | to yearn; to pine | |
| 石 石 | stone, rock, mineral; rad. 112 | |
| 胡 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 婚事 婚事 | wedding; marriage | |
| 爷 爺 | father, grandfather | |
| 退后 退後 | to stand back; to go back (in time); to yield; to make concessions | |
| 救出 救出 | to rescue; to pluck from danger | |
| 择 擇 | select, choose, pick out | |
| 光阴 光陰 | time available | |
| 抓去 抓去 | to arrest and take away | |
| 居心 居心 | to harbor (evil) intentions; to be bent on; a tranquil heart or mind | |
| 抓药 抓藥 | to make up a prescription (of herbal medicine) | |
| 点补 點補 | to have a snack; to have a bite | |
| 过世 過世 | to die; to pass away | |
| 要员 要員 | key participant; VIP | |
| 成亲 成親 | to get married | |
| 旧年 舊年 | last year; the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar) | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 过目 過目 | to look over | |
| 大叔 大叔 | eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 楚 楚 | name of feudal state; clear | |
| 白板 白板 | whiteboard; tabula rasa; blank slate | |
| 链 鏈 | chain, wire, cable; chain, shack | |
| 每个人 每個人 | everybody; everyone | |
| 连累 連累 | to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble; also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4] | |
| 刚巧 剛巧 | by chance; by coincidence; by good luck | |
| 发福 發福 | to put on weight; to get fat (a sign of prosperity, so a compliment) | |
| 世道 世道 | the ways of the world; the morals of the time |