Tales of Larceny 1973
牛鬼蛇神
In “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen's cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw's exceptional character actors.
Vocabulary
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| 小时候 小時候 | in one's childhood | |
| 熟 熟 | ripe; mature; thoroughly cooked; done; familiar; acquainted; experienced; skilled; (of sleep etc) deep; profound; also pr. [shóu] | |
| 有意思 有意思 | interesting; meaningful; enjoyable; fun | |
| 不好意思 不好意思 | to feel embarrassed; to find it embarrassing; to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb) | |
| 提到 提到 | to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to | |
| 好事 好事 | good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead | |
| 绿 綠 | green; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend) | |
| 院 院 | courtyard; institution | |
| 放心 放心 | to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease | |
| 舒服 舒服 | comfortable; feeling well | |
| 租 租 | to hire; to rent; to charter; to rent out; to lease out; rent; land tax | |
| 举 舉 | to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed | |
| 练 練 | to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk | |
| 答应 答應 | to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise | |
| 合适 合適 | suitable; fitting; appropriate | |
| 喊 喊 | to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person) | |
| 差不多 差不多 | almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad | |
| 方便 方便 | convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself | |
| 轻 輕 | light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage | |
| 满意 滿意 | satisfied; pleased; to one's satisfaction | |
| 千 千 | thousand | |
| 接到 接到 | to receive (letter etc) | |
| 出口 出口 | an exit; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port | |
| 篇 篇 | sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article | |
| 背 揹 | to be burdened; to carry on the back or shoulder | |
| 纸 紙 | paper; classifier for documents, letter etc | |
| 封 封 | to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 长大 長大 | to grow up | |
| 明星 明星 | star; celebrity | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 咱们 咱們 | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] | |
| 普通 普通 | common; ordinary; general; average | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 鸡 雞 | fowl; chicken; (slang) prostitute | |
| 实在 實在 | really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality | |
| 流 流 | to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade | |
| 听说 聽說 | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking | |
| 节 節 | see 节骨眼 | |
| 排 排 | a row; a line; to set in order; to arrange; to line up; to eliminate; to drain; to push open; platoon; raft; classifier for lines, rows etc | |
| 正是 正是 | is precisely | |
| 通 通 | to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc | |
| 刚才 剛才 | just now; a moment ago | |
| 样子 樣子 | appearance; manner; pattern; model | |
| 年轻 年輕 | young | |
| 十分 十分 | very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts | |
| 海 海 | ocean; sea; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous | |
| 省 省 | to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government) | |
| 嘴 嘴 | mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc) |