The Crazy Bumpkins

The Crazy Bumpkins 1974

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A bittersweet comedy about a simple hick who arrives in the big city to seek his fortune, "The Crazy Bumpkins" is about Ah Niu, who leaves his native village to live with an uncle in Hong Kong, not realizing he is a crook. After taking on a hilarious series of illegal jobs with his uncle, he meets and falls for a single mother and decides to find some real work. However, bad luck and naivete soon conspire to keep him from true happiness.

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dān bǎo to guarantee; to vouch for HSK 4
huì to misunderstand; to mistake; misunderstanding HSK 4
zhì to put in order; to arrange; to decorate; to fix up; to deploy HSK 4
báo thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile HSK 4
shàn liáng good and honest; kindhearted HSK 4
yǎn jìng spectacles; eyeglasses HSK 4
ǎi low; short (in length) HSK 4
bèn stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy HSK 4
guò fèn excessive; undue; overly HSK 4
yǎn lèi tears; crying HSK 4
shēn cái stature; build (height and weight); figure HSK 4
yùn qi luck (good or bad) HSK 4
duì fu to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) HSK 4
sǎn scattered; loose; to come loose; to fall apart; leisurely; powdered medicine HSK 4
to send; to mail; to entrust; to depend on; to attach oneself to; to live (in a house); to lodge; foster (son etc) HSK 4
wèi position; status; place HSK 4
zi belly; abdomen; stomach HSK 4
féi fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure HSK 4
shì de seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] HSK 4
tooth; ivory HSK 4
xiāng box; trunk; chest HSK 4
tiāo to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick HSK 4
gài lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build HSK 4
nào noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke HSK 4
benefit; (in sb's) interest HSK 4
to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant HSK 4
zhì unanimous; identical (views or opinions) HSK 4
to rub; to scratch; to towel; to wipe with a towel; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc); to touch; to brush (past); to shred (vegetables etc) HSK 4
bǎo jewel; gem; treasure; precious HSK 4
rén jiā household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be HSK 4
to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for HSK 4
dài to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support HSK 4
qiē to cut; to slice; to carve; (math) tangential HSK 4
shǒu in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands HSK 4
xǐng to remind; to call attention to; to warn of HSK 4
huò goods; money; commodity HSK 4
rán since; as; this being the case HSK 4
tiǎo zhàn to challenge; challenge HSK 4
shēn qǐng to apply for sth; application form HSK 4
zhàng fu husband HSK 4
pán plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess HSK 4
xíng mold; type; style; model HSK 4
qīn ài dear; beloved; darling HSK 4
xīn psychology; mentality HSK 4
zhǐ address HSK 4
xiōng brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal HSK 4
Fēi abbr. for 洲, Africa HSK 4
jiě shì explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve HSK 4
kàn lai apparently; it seems that HSK 4
self; oneself; from; since; naturally; surely HSK 4