Tales from the Dark 1

Tales from the Dark 1 2013

huá guǐmèi xìliè

In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this horror anthology.

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4.01 Intermediate Director Lee Chi-Ngai, Fruit Chan, Simon Yam IMDb 5.6

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Vocabulary

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kǒng terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist HSK 7
suǒ wèi so-called; what is called HSK 7
namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
ér that's all; nothing more HSK 7
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items HSK 7
qíng feeling; emotion; passion; situation HSK 7
zhǔ owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) HSK 7
é to chant HSK 7
zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
guān mén to close down a business for good and put the best face on it (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
jiàn rén slut; cheap person Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
bāng xiōng variant of Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
gāo shǒu expert; past master; dab hand Xiehouyu HSK 6
jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
léi thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) Colloquialism HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
yǒu méi yǒu (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)? HSK 6
xiào school uniform ∼HSK 6
rén my child ∼HSK 6
shú huí to redeem ∼HSK 6
líng deity; monster; strange; mysterious; supernatural ∼HSK 6
xié to drive out devils; exorcism ∼HSK 6
xiāo zāi to avoid calamities ∼HSK 6
líng wèi memorial tablet ∼HSK 6
huī kān columbarium ∼HSK 6
zhǔ yi to make a decision; to make up one's mind ∼HSK 6
xiǎo serenade ∼HSK 6
huì your patronage ∼HSK 6
shēng chén one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch ∼HSK 6
yǒu liào impressive ∼HSK 6
kào reliable; reasonable; probable ∼HSK 6
li jīng fox-spirit; vixen; witch; enchantress ∼HSK 6
ominous ∼HSK 6
shùn unfavorable; adverse ∼HSK 6
duō zhī succulent; juicy ∼HSK 6
gāng bathtub ∼HSK 6
lǎo bǎn niáng female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife ∼HSK 6
very auspicious; extremely lucky ∼HSK 6
shì (Cantonese) same as ∼HSK 6
duān duān for no reason ∼HSK 6
to pay on demand ∼HSK 6
bài to worship; to observe religious rites; to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc) ∼HSK 6
táng xiōng father's brother's sons; paternal male cousin ∼HSK 6
shēn - xiāng (of a woman) to give one's heart (to sb); (fig.) to devote oneself wholeheartedly to sb or sth ∼HSK 6
zǒu piān to deviate from the correct course; (fig.) to go astray ∼HSK 6
huà zuò to change into; to turn into; to become ∼HSK 6
gōng zǎi doll; cuddly toy ∼HSK 6
yōu yáng melodious; mellifluous ∼HSK 6
chú to drive off; to dispel; to expel ∼HSK 6