Rigor Mortis 2013
僵尸
When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampires: or Jiāngshī. Elsewhere in the building, a woman turns to a specialist in black magic to bring her husband back to life.
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Vocabulary
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| 外表 外表 | external; outside; outward appearance | |
| 铜 銅 | copper (chemistry); see also 红铜 | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 好笑 好笑 | laughable; funny; ridiculous | |
| 敬 敬 | (bound form) respectful; to respect; to offer politely | |
| 美味 美味 | delicious; delicious food; delicacy | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 亦 亦 | also | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 涂 塗 | to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street | |
| 恶 惡 | used in 恶心 | |
| 善 善 | good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect | |
| 汁 汁 | juice | |
| 计 計 | to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge | |
| 灰 灰 | ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 生不逢时 生不逢時 | born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time | Idiom |
| 仁至义尽 仁至義盡 | extreme benevolence, utmost duty (idiom); meticulous virtue and attention to duty | Idiom |
| 借尸还魂 借屍還魂 | lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise | Idiom |
| 逆天 逆天 | (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible | 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)? | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 面罩 面罩 | mask; visor; facepiece (e.g. diving suit, gas mask) | |
| 煮饭 煮飯 | to cook | |
| 口德 口德 | propriety in speech | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 一拜 一拜 | to bow once; a single bow (of respect or worship) | |
| 吊颈 吊頸 | to hang oneself | |
| 炒菜 炒菜 | to stir-fry; to do the cooking; stir-fried dish | |
| 堂食 堂食 | to eat in (at the restaurant) (contrasted with); (restaurant) dine-in service | |
| 芥兰 芥蘭 | variant of | |
| 白粥 白粥 | plain rice congee | |
| 缝补 縫補 | to darn (clothing); to sew and mend | |
| 打理 打理 | to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order | |
| 档子 檔子 | classifier for affairs, events etc | |
| 结业 結業 | to finish school, esp. a short course; to complete a course; (of a company) to cease operations | |
| 炸死 炸死 | to kill with an explosion | |
| 办妥 辦妥 | to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through | |
| 挖坑 挖坑 | to dig a hole; (fig.) to make things difficult for sb; (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project | |
| 抛下 拋下 | to throw down; to dump; to abandon; thrown down | |
| 同屋 同屋 | roommate; to share a room |