Royal Tramp 1992
鹿鼎记
The story of Wai Siu Bo, a pimp who after saving Chan Kan Nam, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a botched first assignment for the group, he is made a servant to the Prince, the very person the Heaven and Earth society want to overthrow. What follows is plenty of mayhem and laughter.
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Vocabulary
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| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 人物 人物 | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting) | |
| 恢复 恢復 | to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate | |
| 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 | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 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) | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 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 | |
| 一言九鼎 一言九鼎 | one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight | Idiom |
| 死而后已 死而後已 | until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life; unto one's dying day | Idiom |
| 刻薄 刻薄 | unkind; harsh; cutting; mean; acrimony; to embezzle by making illegal deductions | Xiehouyu |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | 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 |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 武功 武功 | Wugong County in Xianyang, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 四十二章经 四十二章經 | The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 AD by Kasyapa-Matanga and Gobharana (Dharmaraksha) | Proper Noun |
| 索尼 索尼 | Sony | Proper Noun |
| 青木 青木 | Aoki (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 建宁 建寧 | Jianning, a county in Sanming City, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 清廷 清廷 | the Qing court (as government of China) | Proper Noun |
| 江山 江山 | Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 皇城 皇城 | Imperial City, inner part of Beijing, with the Forbidden City at its center | Proper Noun |
| 清朝 清朝 | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 满清 滿清 | Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan) | Proper Noun |
| 大宝 大寶 | Taiho (a Japanese era) | Proper Noun |
| 紫禁城 紫禁城 | the Forbidden City; the Imperial Palace in Beijing; same as | Proper Noun |
| 荆轲 荊軻 | Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) | Proper Noun |
| 八旗 八旗 | Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 无厘头 無厘頭 | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century | 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 |
| 红旗 紅旗 | Hongqi district of Xinxiang city, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 正蓝旗 正藍旗 | Plain Blue banner or Shuluun Höh khoshuu in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia; also written 正蘭旗|正兰旗 | Proper Noun |
| 布达拉宫 布達拉宮 | Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet | Proper Noun |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 韦 韋 | tanned leather; surname; simplified form of KangXi radical number 178 | |
| 骨 骨 | bone; skeleton; frame, framework | |
| 旗 旂 | banner, flag, streamer | |
| 估 估 | merchant; estimate, guess, presume |