Return of the Phoenix 1963
凤还巢
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quandary. He's getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh-yeh (Elizabeth Chuang) is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh-wu (Li Hsiang-chun) is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng decides to marry Shueh-wu off.
Vocabulary
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| 立 立 | to stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately | |
| 骂 罵 | to scold; to abuse; to curse | |
| 害 害 | to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 辛苦 辛苦 | exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s) | |
| 礼 禮 | gift; rite; ceremony; propriety; etiquette; courtesy | |
| 扔 扔 | to throw; to throw away | |
| 醉 醉 | intoxicated | |
| 尤其 尤其 | especially; particularly | |
| 价 價 | price; value; (chemistry) valence | |
| 逃 逃 | to escape; to run away; to flee | |
| 可怜 可憐 | pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 偷 偷 | to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily | |
| 运 運 | to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate | |
| 恨 恨 | to hate; to regret | |
| 愿 願 | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing | |
| 丢 丟 | to lose; to put aside; to throw | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 居然 居然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 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 | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 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 | |
| 粗茶淡饭 粗茶淡飯 | plain tea and simple food; (fig.) bread and water | Idiom |
| 才貌双全 才貌雙全 | talented and good-looking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 安步当车 安步當車 | to go on foot (idiom); to do things at a leisurely pace | Idiom |
| 王八 王八 | softshell turtle; cuckold; (old) male owner of a brothel | Xiehouyu |
| 错怪 錯怪 | to blame sb wrongly | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | 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 |
| 帅 帥 | (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 牛郎 牛郎 | Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女; Altair (star) | Proper Noun |
| 乐安 樂安 | Le'an county in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 兵部 兵部 | Ministry of War (in imperial China) | Proper Noun |
| 周公 周公 | Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou, and is also known as the "God of Dreams" | Proper Noun |
| 唐明皇 唐明皇 | Emperor Ming of Tang (685-762), also known as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, reigned 712-756 | Proper Noun |
| 建业 建業 | an old name for Nanjing, called Jiankang 建康 or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420) | Proper Noun |
| 诗书 詩書 | the Book of Songs and the Book of History | Proper Noun |
| 织女 織女 | Vega (star); Weaving girl of folk tales | Proper Noun |