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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| 淘汰 淘汰 | to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 以 㕥 | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 万寿无疆 萬壽無疆 | may you enjoy boundless longevity (idiom); long may you live | Idiom |
| 以夷制夷 以夷制夷 | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties); Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing sl | Idiom |
| 勾心斗角 勾心鬥角 | to fight and scheme against each other (idiom); (in palace construction) elaborate and refined | Idiom |
| 渔人之利 漁人之利 | (idiom) the benefit reaped by a third party when two sides are locked in a dispute | Idiom |
| 国泰民安 國泰民安 | the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity | Idiom |
| 龙蛇混杂 龍蛇混雜 | lit. dragons and snakes mingle (idiom); fig. a mix of good people and scumbags | Idiom |
| 清一色 清一色 | (mahjong) flush; a complete hand where all tiles are of the same suit; (fig.) uniformly; each and every one | Idiom |
| 知法犯法 知法犯法 | to know the law and break it (idiom); consciously going against the rules | Idiom |
| 手舞足蹈 手舞足蹈 | lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom); fig. to dance about; to express one's feelings in body language; to gesture animatedly; (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs | Idiom |
| 不打不相识 不打不相識 | lit. don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship; no discord, no concord | Idiom |
| 燃眉之急 燃眉之急 | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency | Idiom |
| 文房四宝 文房四寶 | Four Treasures of the Study, namely,, and; the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | Idiom |
| 风马牛不相及 風馬牛不相及 | to be completely unrelated to one another (idiom); irrelevant | Idiom |
| 恩将仇报 恩將仇報 | to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom) | Idiom |
| 恭敬不如从命 恭敬不如從命 | deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom); (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc) | Idiom |
| 天罗地网 天羅地網 | inescapable net (idiom); trap; dragnet | Idiom |
| 人命关天 人命關天 | human life is beyond value (idiom) | Idiom |
| 野种 野種 | (derog.) illegitimate child; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 恶人先告状 惡人先告狀 | the guilty party files the suit; the thief cries thief | Xiehouyu |
| 快人快语 快人快語 | 快: rapid, quick, speedy, fast; soon · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else · 快: rapid, quick, speedy, fast; soon · 语: language, words; saying, expression | Xiehouyu |
| 瘸子 瘸子 | lame person (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 洋火 洋火 | (coll.) matches (old) | Colloquialism |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | 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)? | |
| 蒸气 蒸氣 | vapor; steam | |
| 腐乳 腐乳 | pickled tofu | |
| 洋人 洋人 | foreigner; Westerner | |
| 皇太后 皇太后 | empress dowager | |
| 烫伤 燙傷 | to scald | |
| 争霸 爭霸 | to contend for hegemony; a power struggle | |
| 洋妞 洋妞 | young foreign girl | |
| 作主 作主 | to decide; to have the final say | |
| 蔡李佛 蔡李佛 | Choy Li Fut (Chinese martial art) | |
| 拳脚 拳腳 | Chinese boxing; fist and feet; punching and kicking | |
| 解毒 解毒 | to detoxify; to relieve fever (in Chinese medicine) | |
| 洋鬼子 洋鬼子 | foreign devil; term of abuse for Westerners |