Mr. Vampire III 1987
灵幻先生
The Vampire Master joins forces with another fellow priest with his two pet ghosts along for the ride to defeat an evil witch and her henchman, whose goals are to defeat the human race. The priests must also overcome the odds of the separation between humans and ghosts.
Vocabulary
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| 笑里藏刀 笑裡藏刀 | lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions; when the fox preaches, look to the geese | Idiom |
| 孤魂野鬼 孤魂野鬼 | wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom); person who has no family or friends to rely on | Idiom |
| 头晕眼花 頭暈眼花 | to faint with blurred vision (idiom); dizzy and eyes dimmed | Idiom |
| 自相残杀 自相殘殺 | to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife | Idiom |
| 魂飞魄散 魂飛魄散 | lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom); fig. to be frightened stiff; spooked out of one's mind; terror-stricken | Idiom |
| 不识抬举 不識抬舉 | fail to appreciate sb's kindness; not know how to appreciate favors | Xiehouyu |
| 吃不消 吃不消 | to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage | Xiehouyu |
| 自讨苦吃 自討苦吃 | (idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 油炸鬼 油炸鬼 | (coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 朱砂 硃砂 | cinnabar; mercuric sulfide HgS; also written | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 马贼 馬賊 | horse thief; (old) group of horse-mounted bandits | |
| 偏要 偏要 | to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything | |
| 竹筒 竹筒 | bamboo tube; bamboo pipe | |
| 魂魄 魂魄 | soul | |
| 恶鬼 惡鬼 | evil spirit; devil | |
| 童子尿 童子尿 | urine of boys under 12, used as medicine (TCM) | |
| 熨斗 熨斗 | clothes iron | |
| 吹熄 吹熄 | to blow out (a flame) | |
| 作主 作主 | to decide; to have the final say | |
| 正邪 正邪 | opposition between vital energy and pathogeny (TCM) | |
| 白粥 白粥 | plain rice congee | |
| 鬼魂 鬼魂 | ghost | |
| 炸掉 炸掉 | to bomb | |
| 灵符 靈符 | a Daoist talisman | |
| 坟地 墳地 | graveyard; cemetery | |
| 世伯 世伯 | uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father); old friend | |
| 冷清清 冷清清 | deserted; desolate; unfrequented; cold and cheerless; lonely; in quiet isolation | |
| 虚实 虛實 | what is true and what is false; (to get to know) the real situation | |
| 离谱 離譜 | inappropriate; improper; out of place | |
| 洗劫 洗劫 | to loot; to ransack; to pillage | |
| 只限于 只限於 | to be limited to | |
| 格杀勿论 格殺勿論 | to be executed on the spot without trial (idiom); shoot/kill on sight without question | |
| 奸淫掳掠 姦淫擄掠 | to rape and pillage (idiom); to plunder, ravish and loot | |
| 收监 收監 | to imprison; to take into custody | |
| 小便 小便 | urine; to urinate; (euphemism) penis or vulva | |
| 护身符 護身符 | amulet; protective talisman; charm | |
| 作态 作態 | to put on an attitude; to pose | |
| 拦路 攔路 | to block sb's path; to waylay | |
| 生辰 生辰 | birthday | |
| 作弄 作弄 | to tease; to play tricks on | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
| 同道中人 同道中人 | kindred spirit | |
| 不祥 不祥 | ominous; inauspicious | |
| 贫贱 貧賤 | poor and lowly | |
| 衰败 衰敗 | to decline; to wane; to decay; to deteriorate |