The Crazy Bumpkins 1974
阿牛入城记
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.
Vocabulary
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | 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 |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 一块儿 一塊兒 | erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar | Colloquialism |
| 菜 菜 | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor | Colloquialism |
| 肉 肉 | meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 | 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 |
| 山东 山東 | Shandong Province, capital Jinan | 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 |
| 香港 香港 | Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC | Proper Noun |
| 客家 客家 | Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south | Proper Noun |
| 人大 人大 | Renmin University of China | Proper Noun |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 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 | |
| 你妈 你媽 | (interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 开门 開門 | to open a door (lit. and fig.); to open for business | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 一个人 一個人 | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) | |
| 每天 每天 | every day | |
| 有钱 有錢 | well-off; wealthy | |
| 一次 一次 | first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
| 是的 是的 | yes, that's right; variant of | |
| 对了 對了 | Correct!; Oh, that's right,... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention); Oh, by the way,... | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 做工 做工 | to work with one's hands; manual work; workmanship | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 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 | |
| 工 工 | labor, work; worker, laborer | |
| 洗衣 洗衣 | laundry | |
| 三十 三十 | thirty; 30 | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 叫做 叫做 | to be called; to be known as | |
| 从来没有 從來沒有 | there has never been; has never had; (before a verb) has never |