New Dragon Gate Inn 1992
新龙门客栈
During the Ming Dynasty, power-crazed eunuch Tso Siu Yan rules his desert region of China as if he were Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.
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Vocabulary
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| 三生有幸 三生有幸 | the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom); (courteous language) it's my good fortune... | Idiom |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 莫言 莫言 | Mo Yan (1955-), Chinese novelist, winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature | Proper Noun |
| 淮安 淮安 | Huai'an, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province | Proper Noun |
| 小川 小川 | Ogawa (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 武功 武功 | Wugong County in Xianyang, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 怀安 懷安 | Huai'an county in Zhangjiakou, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 塞外 塞外 | (old) territories beyond the Great Wall | Proper Noun |
| 江山 江山 | Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 黄泉 黃泉 | the Yellow Springs; the underworld of Chinese mythology; the equivalent of Hades or Hell | Proper Noun |
| 秘 祕 | secret, mysterious, abstruse | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 曹 曹 | ministry officials; surname | |
| 贺 賀 | congratulate; send present | |
| 屁 屁 | break wind; fart; buttocks | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 闹新房 鬧新房 | disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds) | |
| 责 責 | duty; responsibility; to reproach; to blame | |
| 底细 底細 | inside information; the ins and outs of the matter; how things stand; what's up | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 御 御 | drive, ride; chariot; manage | |
| 辑 輯 | gather up, collect; edit, compile | |
| 民女 民女 | woman from an ordinary family | |
| 冲进 衝進 | to rush in; to charge in | |
| 官场 官場 | officialdom; bureaucracy | |
| 沙场 沙場 | sandpit; battleground; battlefield | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 兄 兄 | elder brother | |
| 贺词 賀詞 | message of congratulation | |
| 四方 四方 | four-way; four-sided; in all directions; everywhere | |
| 互 互 | mutually, reciprocally | |
| 败类 敗類 | scum of a community; degenerate | |
| 带兵 帶兵 | to lead troops | |
| 无常 無常 | variable; changeable; fickle; impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya); ghost taking away the soul after death; to pass away; to die | |
| 救兵 救兵 | relief troops; reinforcements | |
| 阵线 陣線 | a front (militant group); line of battle; alignment (towards a political party etc) | |
| 流沙 流沙 | quicksand; (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava | |
| 自找 自找 | to suffer as a consequence of one's own actions; you asked for it; to bring it on oneself (sth unpleasant) | |
| 痛快 痛快 | delighted; to one's heart's content; straightforward; also pr. [tòng kuai] | |
| 着火 著火 | to catch fire | |
| 玉 玉 | jade | |
| 没错 沒錯 | that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong | |
| 老实 老實 | honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible | |
| 布置 佈置 | to put in order; to arrange; to decorate; to fix up; to deploy | |
| 逛 逛 | to stroll; to visit | |
| 败 敗 | to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither | |
| 伙 夥 | companion; partner; group; classifier for groups of people; to combine; together | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss |