Painted Skin 2008
画皮
Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 关系 關係 | relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 三脚猫 三腳貓 | sb with only rudimentary skills (in a particular area) | Xiehouyu |
| 没完没了 沒完沒了 | without end; incessantly; on and on | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 万里 萬里 | Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician | Proper Noun |
| 阴山 陰山 | Yin mountains in Inner Mongolia | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 杀人 殺人 | homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 头颅 頭顱 | head; skull | |
| 让开 讓開 | to get out of the way; to step aside | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 观 觀 | see, observe, view; appearance | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 身为 身為 | in the capacity of; as | |
| 职 職 | duty, profession; office, post | |
| 潦倒 潦倒 | down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated | |
| 往外 往外 | out; outbound; departing | |
| 工头 工頭 | foreman | |
| 坏掉 壞掉 | to get broken; to get damaged; to get ruined | |
| 店小二 店小二 | (old) (in a tavern or inn etc) waiter; attendant | |
| 卖完 賣完 | to be sold out | |
| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 款 款 | item, article; clause; fund | |
| 带上 帶上 | to take along with one | |
| 急着 急著 | urgently | |
| 老头 老頭 | old fellow; old man; father; husband | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 街上 街上 | on the street; in town |