Once Upon a Time in China V 1994
黄飞鸿之五:龙城歼霸
After the authorities flee China with public funds, Wong Fei-Hung battles pirates and corrupt officials to help the government restore peace.
Vocabulary
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| 神 神 | deity; soul; spirit; unusual; mysterious; lively; expressive; expression; look; (slang) awesome; amazing | |
| 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 | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 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 | |
| 一盘散沙 一盤散沙 | lit. like a sheet of loose sand; fig. unable to cooperate (idiom) | Idiom |
| 随机应变 隨機應變 | to change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic | Idiom |
| 酒囊饭袋 酒囊飯袋 | wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing | Idiom |
| 扫把星 掃把星 | comet; person who brings bad luck; jinx | Xiehouyu |
| 无法无天 無法無天 | (idiom) defiant of the law and lacking any sense of morality; lawless; out of control; unruly | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 高潮 高潮 | high tide; high water; upsurge; peak of activity; climax (of a story, a competition etc); to have an orgasm | Xiehouyu |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 老公 老公 | (coll.) husband | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 县官 縣官 | district magistrate; county magistrate | Proper Noun |
| 新军 新軍 | New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) | Proper Noun |
| 阿森 阿森 | Assen, city in the Netherlands | Proper Noun |
| 清朝 清朝 | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 八国联军 八國聯軍 | Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900 | Proper Noun |
| 佛山 佛山 | Foshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 直隶 直隸 | Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 番禺 番禺 | Panyu District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong; Panyu County in Guangdong province | Proper Noun |
| 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 |
| 多佛 多佛 | Dover | Proper Noun |
| 大英 大英 | Daying county in Suining, Sichuan; Great Britain | Proper Noun |
| 红旗 紅旗 | Hongqi district of Xinxiang city, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 嘉庆 嘉慶 | Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name, reigned 1796-1820 | Proper Noun |
| 布袋 布袋 | Budai (the Laughing Buddha); Budai or Putai Town in Chiayi County, west Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 明太祖 明太祖 | Ming Taizu, temple name of first Ming emperor Hongwu | Proper Noun |
| 光绪 光緒 | reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908) | Proper Noun |
| 阎罗王 閻羅王 | (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell | Proper Noun |
| 李鸿章 李鴻章 | Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat | Proper Noun |
| 来安 來安 | Lai'an, a county in Chuzhou, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 仔 仔 | small thing, child; young animal | |
| 大王 大王 | king; magnate; person having expert skill in something | |
| 单眼 單眼 | ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye); one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye) | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 旗 旂 | banner, flag, streamer | |
| 做官 做官 | to take an official post; to become a government employee | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 民团 民團 | civil corps; militia |