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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| 如果 如果 | if; in case; in the event that | |
| 已经 已經 | already | |
| 这样 這樣 | this kind of; so; this way; like this; such | |
| 得 得 | to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished | |
| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 但 但 | but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 欢天喜地 歡天喜地 | delighted; with great joy; in high spirits | Idiom |
| 多谢 多謝 | many thanks; thanks a lot | Xiehouyu |
| 大喜 大喜 | exultation | Xiehouyu |
| 将就 將就 | to accept (a bit reluctantly); to put up with | Xiehouyu |
| 不快 不快 | unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp | Xiehouyu |
| 好看 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 上床 上床 | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex | Colloquialism |
| 今儿 今兒 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 这会儿 這會兒 | (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 四月 四月 | April; fourth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 杨贵妃 楊貴妃 | Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong | Proper Noun |
| 关山 關山 | Guanshan or Kuanshan town in Taitung County, southeast Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 不明 不明 | not clear; unknown; to fail to understand | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 南下 南下 | to go down south | |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 叩见 叩見 | to kowtow in salute | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 京 京 | capital city | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 星 星 | a star, planet; any point of light | |
| 在下 在下 | under; myself (humble) |