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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| 率 率 | rate; frequency | |
| 真心 真心 | sincere; heartfelt | |
| 素 素 | raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever | |
| 他人 他人 | another person; sb else; other people | |
| 艘 艘 | classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sāo] | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 案件 案件 | case; instance | |
| 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) | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 趁火打劫 趁火打劫 | lit. to loot a burning house (idiom); fig. to take advantage of sb's misfortune | Idiom |
| 一本万利 一本萬利 | small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out | Idiom |
| 含情脉脉 含情脈脈 | full of tender feelings (idiom); tender-hearted | Idiom |
| 风平浪静 風平浪靜 | lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment; all is quiet; a dead calm (at sea) | Idiom |
| 招兵买马 招兵買馬 | lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff | Idiom |
| 一本正经 一本正經 | (idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan | Idiom |
| 树碑立传 樹碑立傳 | lit. to erect a stele and write a biography (idiom); to monumentalize; to glorify; to sing the praises of | Idiom |
| 打家劫舍 打家劫舍 | to break into a house for robbery (idiom) | Idiom |
| 神机妙算 神機妙算 | divine strategy and wonderful planning (idiom); clever scheme; supremely clever in his schemes | Idiom |
| 露馅 露餡 | to leak; to expose (sb's secret); to spill the beans; to let the cat out of the bag | Xiehouyu |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 万花筒 萬花筒 | kaleidoscope | Xiehouyu |
| 腹背受敌 腹背受敵 | (idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear | Xiehouyu |
| 同归于尽 同歸於盡 | to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction | Xiehouyu |
| 翘辫子 翹辮子 | (coll.) to die; to kick the bucket | 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)? | |
| 米仓 米倉 | rice granary | |
| 猫头鹰 貓頭鷹 | owl | |
| 巡捕 巡捕 | to patrol; policeman (in China's former foreign concessions) | |
| 贼窝 賊窩 | thieves' lair | |
| 花拳绣腿 花拳繡腿 | flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom); highly embellished and ineffectual; fancy but impractical skills; all show and no go; pugilistic wankery | |
| 消夜 消夜 | nighttime snack; late-night supper | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 吹熄 吹熄 | to blow out (a flame) | |
| 洋枪 洋槍 | western style guns (in former times) | |
| 假扮 假扮 | to impersonate; to act the part of sb; to disguise oneself as sb else | |
| 失礼 失禮 | discourteous | |
| 办妥 辦妥 | to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through |