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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ě xīn nausea; to feel sick; disgust; nauseating; to embarrass (deliberately) Xiehouyu HSK 4
qīng sōng light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously Xiehouyu HSK 4
qióng poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo gōng (coll.) husband Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo (coll.) wife Colloquialism HSK 4
shāo 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 HSK 4
liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
Bái White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky); (slang) hairless female genitalia Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Li (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Ōu yáng two-character surname Ouyang Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Xiāo bāng (Tw) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Prague, capital of Czech Republic Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Chí shàng Chihshang or Chihshang township in Taitung County, southeast Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
shān Foshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Guān shì yīn Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Wān Zǎi Wan Chai district of Hong Kong Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
zǎi small thing, child; young animal ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo huì how could it ∼HSK 4
jié hero; heroic, outstanding ∼HSK 4
zhī know ∼HSK 4
zhǔ owner; proprietor ∼HSK 4
méi bàn there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it ∼HSK 4
shén me shì what matter ∼HSK 4
yǒng long, perpetual, eternal, forever ∼HSK 4
huǒ shāo to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake ∼HSK 4
bu that's just the way it is; exactly! ∼HSK 4
xióng male of species; hero; manly ∼HSK 4
wēi pomp, power; powerful; dominate ∼HSK 4
Buddhist salutation or expression of faith (loanword from Sanskrit); Taiwan pr. [na2 mo2] ∼HSK 4
shēng rén stranger ∼HSK 4
yàn dislike, detest, reject; satiate ∼HSK 4
fān chē (of a vehicle) to flip over; (fig.) to go wrong; to flop ∼HSK 4
sǎn gōng day labor; piece-time work ∼HSK 4
luò jiǎo to stay for a time; to stop over; to lodge; to sink down (into soft ground); leftovers ∼HSK 4
chōng liáng (dialect) to take a shower ∼HSK 4
mǎi dān to pay the restaurant bill ∼HSK 4
gài lóu to construct a building; (Internet slang) to reply to a thread ∼HSK 4
Guō outer part (of a city); surname ∼HSK 4
lǎo jiā huo variant of ∼HSK 4
gōng zǎi young worker; employee; young male worker ∼HSK 4
to live away from home ∼HSK 4
jiāo huò to deliver goods ∼HSK 4
zhǔ chǎng (sports) home ground; home field; (sports) home game; main venue (for a festival etc) ∼HSK 4
shāo to burn (a CD or DVD) ∼HSK 4
zǎi henchman; gang member ∼HSK 4
xià chú to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal); to cook ∼HSK 4
gāo shāo fever; high temperature ∼HSK 4
guā connection; association; involvement ∼HSK 4
zhǐ zhēn pointer on a gauge; clock hand; cursor; (computing) pointer ∼HSK 4
yǒu guān lián related to; concerning; to be correlated ∼HSK 4