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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| 好朋友 好朋友 | good friend; (slang) a visit from Aunt Flo (menstrual period) | |
| 女的 女的 | woman | |
| 妈的 媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 做人 做人 | to conduct oneself; to behave with integrity | |
| 小女 小女 | my daughter (humble) | |
| 十八 十八 | eighteen; 18 | |
| 有风 有風 | windy | |
| 坐车 坐車 | to take the car, bus, train etc | |
| 好玩 好玩 | amusing; fun; interesting | |
| 什么的 什麼的 | and so on; and so forth; and what not | |
| 拿来 拿來 | to bring; to fetch; to get | |
| 家去 家去 | (dialect) to go home; to return home | |
| 有钱 有錢 | well-off; wealthy | |
| 到手 到手 | to take possession of; to get hold of | |
| 说不出 說不出 | unable to say | |
| 不很 不很 | not very | |
| 重回 重回 | to return | |
| 外甥 外甥 | sister's son; wife's sibling's son | |
| 从来没有 從來沒有 | there has never been; has never had; (before a verb) has never | |
| 一家 一家 | the whole family; the same family; the family... (when preceded by a family name); group | |
| 上好 上好 | first-rate; top-notch | |
| 想起来 想起來 | to remember; to recall | |
| 等等 等等 | et cetera; and so on...; wait a minute!; hold on! | |
| 怎么回事 怎麼回事 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? | |
| 差点 差點 | almost; nearly | |
| 老二 老二 | second-eldest child in a family; (euphemism) penis | |
| 前几天 前幾天 | a few days ago; a few days before; the past few days; the previous few days | |
| 下一个 下一個 | the next one | |
| 八十 八十 | eighty; 80 | |
| 不可以 不可以 | may not | |
| 送人 送人 | to give away; to accompany; to see sb off | |
| 不见了 不見了 | to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found | |
| 太过 太過 | excessively; too | |
| 不太好 不太好 | not so good; not too well | |
| 差事 差事 | poor; not up to standard | |
| 做工 做工 | to work with one's hands; manual work; workmanship | |
| 百年 百年 | hundred years; century; lifetime | |
| 半个 半個 | half of sth | |
| 后门 後門 | back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor | |
| 说到 說到 | to talk about; to mention; (preposition) as for | |
| 记错 記錯 | to remember incorrectly | |
| 坏了 壞了 | shoot!; gosh!; oh, no!; (suffix) to the utmost | |
| 几个 幾個 | a few; several; how many | |
| 你等 你等 | (archaic) you all | |
| 明月 明月 | bright moon; refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark | |
| 男的 男的 | man | |
| 明 明 | bright, light, brilliant; clear | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 的姐 的姐 | female taxi driver | |
| 对我来说 對我來說 | as far as I'm concerned |