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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| 好吃 好吃 | tasty; delicious | Xiehouyu |
| 好看 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 上床 上床 | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 今儿个 今兒個 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 一块儿 一塊兒 | erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 三星 三星 | Samsung (South Korean electronics company); Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 上海 上海 | Shanghai municipality | Proper Noun |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 大山 大山 | Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV personality in PRC | Proper Noun |
| 点点 點點 | Diandian (Chinese microblogging and social networking website) | Proper Noun |
| 南京路 南京路 | Nanjing St., large commercial street in Shanghai | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 他妈的 他媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 左右手 左右手 | left and right hands; (fig.) capable assistant; right-hand man | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 军 軍 | army, military; soldiers, troops | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 外人 外人 | outsider; foreigner; stranger | |
| 跟着 跟著 | to follow after; immediately afterwards | |
| 五十 五十 | fifty | |
| 星 星 | a star, planet; any point of light | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 一个人 一個人 | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 要看 要看 | (it) depends on... | |
| 不到 不到 | not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia | |
| 大小姐 大小姐 | eldest daughter of an affluent family; (polite) your daughter; bossy or indulged young woman; Miss High and Mighty |