The Bride Napping 1962
花田错
The romance of a squire's daughter and a poor but refined scholar is thwarted when a loutish bandit is mistaken for the scholar by a confused servant and is given the idea that the daughter's hand in marriage is his for the asking. Rich in cross-dressing, mistaken identities, and reversals of gender roles, the film playfully subverts traditional Confucian values.
Vocabulary
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| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 幅 幅 | width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 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 | |
| 尽管 儘管 | despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 哈 哈 | abbr. for 哈萨克斯坦, Kazakhstan; abbr. for 哈尔滨, Harbin | |
| 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 | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 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 | |
| 才貌双全 才貌雙全 | talented and good-looking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 三生有幸 三生有幸 | the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom); (courteous language) it's my good fortune... | Idiom |
| 明人不做暗事 明人不做暗事 | an honest person does not act surreptitiously (idiom) | Idiom |
| 绿林好汉 綠林好漢 | (idiom) chivalrous hero, often one who combats injustice or fights for a noble cause (originally referred to a group of outlaws who assembled in) | Idiom |
| 热闹 熱鬧 | bustling with noise and excitement; lively | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | 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 |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 黑森林 黑森林 | Black Forest; Schwarzwald | Proper Noun |
| 孟姜女 孟姜女 | heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body | Proper Noun |
| 诗经 詩經 | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism | Proper Noun |
| 武侯 武侯 | Wuhou district of Chengdu city, Sichuan | 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 |
| 县府 縣府 | county government | Proper Noun |
| 刑部 刑部 | Ministry of Justice (in imperial China) | Proper Noun |
| 佛门 佛門 | Buddhism | Proper Noun |
| 龙王 龍王 | Dragon King (mythology) | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 公子 公子 | son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific) | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 庄 莊 | village, hamlet; villa, manor | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 仙 仙 | immortal | |
| 法子 法子 | way; method; Taiwan pr. [fa2 zi5] | |
| 济 濟 | help, aid, relieve; ferry, cross | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it |