Once Upon a Time in China III 1993
黄飞鸿之三:狮王争霸
Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.
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Vocabulary
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| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem | |
| 拥有 擁有 | to have; to possess | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 控制 控制 | to control | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 落花流水 落花流水 | to be in a sorry state; to be utterly defeated | Idiom |
| 五体投地 五體投地 | to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb | Idiom |
| 化干戈为玉帛 化干戈為玉帛 | lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom); fig. to turn hostility into friendship | Idiom |
| 平安无事 平安無事 | safe and sound (idiom) | Idiom |
| 热闹 熱鬧 | bustling with noise and excitement; lively | Xiehouyu |
| 冷静 冷靜 | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet | Xiehouyu |
| 尾巴 尾巴 | tail; colloquial pr. [yǐ ba] | Colloquialism |
| 修理 修理 | to repair; to fix; to prune; to trim; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 老佛爷 老佛爺 | title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father; nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi | Proper Noun |
| 李鸿章 李鴻章 | Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 慈禧 慈禧 | Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908) | Proper Noun |
| 大清帝国 大清帝國 | Great Qing Empire (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 德胜门 德勝門 | Deshengmen (Beijing) | Proper Noun |
| 佛山 佛山 | Foshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 虎门 虎門 | the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong; Humen Town | Proper Noun |
| 辽东半岛 遼東半島 | Liaodong Peninsula | Proper Noun |
| 虎尾 虎尾 | Huwei town in Yunlin county, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 醒世恒言 醒世恆言 | Stories to Awaken the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong published in 1627 | Proper Noun |
| 西洋 西洋 | the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) | Proper Noun |
| 巡抚 巡撫 | inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times | Proper Noun |
| 直隶 直隸 | Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 广东人 廣東人 | Cantonese (people) | Proper Noun |
| 德里 德里 | Delhi; New Delhi, capital of India; same as | Proper Noun |
| 北洋 北洋 | the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong | Proper Noun |
| 工业革命 工業革命 | Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830 | Proper Noun |
| 黄泉 黃泉 | the Yellow Springs; the underworld of Chinese mythology; the equivalent of Hades or Hell | Proper Noun |
| 武强 武強 | Wuqiang county in Hengshui, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 杜 杜 | stop, prevent; restrict; surname | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 兄 兄 | elder brother | |
| 鸭 鴨 | duck; Anas species (various) | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 威 威 | pomp, power; powerful; dominate | |
| 冲天 沖天 | (lit. and fig.) to soar; to shoot upwards | |
| 武 武 | military; martial, warlike | |
| 乌 烏 | crow, rook, raven; black, dark |