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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Vocabulary

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nán difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good HSK 1
shǎo few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom HSK 1
cuò mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver HSK 1
ma mama; mommy; mother HSK 1
duō shǎo number; amount; somewhat HSK 1
xiè xie to thank; thanks; thank you HSK 1
ma; mom; mother HSK 1
wǎn shang evening; night; in the evening HSK 1
four; 4 HSK 1
huí lai to return; to come back HSK 1
míng tiān tomorrow HSK 1
shuì to sleep; to lie down HSK 1
rèn shi to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition HSK 1
shēn shang on the body; at hand; among HSK 1
zǎo early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely HSK 1
Zuò surname Zuo HSK 1
穿 穿 chuān to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread HSK 1
to shout HSK 1
mén gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) HSK 1
wán to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wàn]); to keep sth for entertainment HSK 1
zhàn station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website HSK 1
bié ren other people; others; other person HSK 1
bāng to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society HSK 1
abbr. for 本, Japan HSK 1
rén woman HSK 1
sòng to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with HSK 1
female; woman; daughter HSK 1
diàn huà telephone; phone call; phone number HSK 1
nín you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你) HSK 1
xiě to write HSK 1
jìn to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound HSK 1
shuǐ water; river; liquid; beverage; additional charges or income; (of clothes) classifier for number of washes HSK 1
zhǔn bèi preparation; to prepare; to intend; to be about to; reserve (fund) HSK 1
xiē those HSK 1
dào to get; to obtain; to receive HSK 1
xiān early; prior; former; in advance; first HSK 1
zhēng first month of the lunar year HSK 1
gāo high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific) HSK 1
to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object) HSK 1
fàng to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks) HSK 1
zhù to live; to dwell; to stay; to reside; to stop; (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) HSK 1
xíng to walk; to go; to travel; a visit; temporary; makeshift; current; in circulation; to do; to perform; capable; competent; effective; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct; Taiwan pr. [xìng] for the behavior-conduct sense HSK 1
lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough HSK 1
chū lái to come out; to appear; to arise HSK 1
fāng region; regional (away from the central administration); local HSK 1
gào to press charges; to file a complaint HSK 1
wèn to ask; to inquire HSK 1
mǎi to buy; to purchase HSK 1
zhòng yào important; significant; major HSK 1
yàng same; like; equal to; the same as; just like HSK 1