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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| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 牵 牽 | to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 佛 佛 | Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 档 檔 | official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 顺 順 | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable | |
| 托 託 | prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 将军 將軍 | general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot | |
| 挖 挖 | to dig; to excavate; to scoop out | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 塔 塔 | pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) | |
| 解 解 | to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 错过 錯過 | to miss (train, opportunity etc) | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 赛 賽 | to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel | |
| 原 原 | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 据 㨿 | used in 据 | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 冒名顶替 冒名頂替 | to assume sb's name and take his place (idiom); to impersonate; to pose under a false name | Idiom |
| 青山绿水 青山綠水 | lit. green hills and clear waters (idiom); fig. picturesque natural scenery | Idiom |
| 才华盖世 才華蓋世 | peerless talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit | Idiom |
| 移花接木 移花接木 | lit. to graft flowers onto a tree (idiom); fig. to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another | Idiom |
| 多管闲事 多管閒事 | meddling in other people's business | Xiehouyu |
| 鸳鸯戏水 鴛鴦戲水 | lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water; fig. to make love | Xiehouyu |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 穆 穆 | majestic, solemn, reverent; calm | |
| 侄 侄 | nephew | |
| 贤 賢 | virtuous, worthy | |
| 娥 娥 | be beautiful; good; surname | |
| 老爷 老爺 | master, sir | |
| 公公 公公 | husband's father; father-in-law; grandpa; grandad; (old) form of address for a eunuch |