Painted Skin 2008
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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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| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 大吉大利 大吉大利 | great luck, great profit (idiom); everything is thriving | Idiom |
| 家破人亡 家破人亡 | family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless | Idiom |
| 原形毕露 原形畢露 | original identity fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth | Idiom |
| 死有余辜 死有餘辜 | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment | Idiom |
| 胡扯 胡扯 | to chatter; nonsense; blather | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 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)? | |
| 客官 客官 | honored customer (sir) | |
| 剑客 劍客 | swordsman | |
| 山丘 山丘 | hill | |
| 偷袭 偷襲 | to mount a sneak attack; to raid | |
| 父母双亡 父母雙亡 | to have lost both one's parents | |
| 饭庄 飯莊 | big restaurant | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 巡查 巡查 | to patrol | |
| 古灵精怪 古靈精怪 | (idiom) mischievously clever; whimsically quirky | |
| 宵禁 宵禁 | night curfew | |
| 摆摊 擺攤 | to set up a vendor's stall in the street | |
| 胡言 胡言 | nonsense talk | |
| 封印 封印 | seal (on envelopes) | |
| 魔棒 魔棒 | magic wand | |
| 旧情 舊情 | old affection | |
| 没命 沒命 | to lose one's life; to die; recklessly; desperately | |
| 心窍 心竅 | the mind; capacity for clear thinking | |
| 验明正身 驗明正身 | to identify; to verify sb's identity; identification | |
| 不误 不誤 | used in expressions of the form 照V不誤|照V, in which V is a verb, means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照 | |
| 人形 人形 | human form; human-shaped; humanoid | |
| 吞食 吞食 | to devour | |
| 原形 原形 | original shape; true appearance (under the disguise); true character | |
| 两情相悦 兩情相悅 | (of a couple) to be harmonious; to be each other's sunshine | |
| 作主 作主 | to decide; to have the final say | |
| 毙命 斃命 | to meet violent death; to get killed | |
| 砍死 砍死 | to hack to death; to kill with an ax | |
| 偿命 償命 | to pay with one's life | |
| 灵气 靈氣 | spiritual influence (of mountains etc); cleverness; ingeniousness | |
| 吉祥 吉祥 | lucky; auspicious; propitious | |
| 布满 布滿 | to be covered with; to be filled with | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 师父 師父 | used for 师傅 (in Taiwan); master; qualified worker | |
| 热水 熱水 | hot water | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter |