The Crazy Bumpkins

The Crazy Bumpkins 1974

阿牛入城记 ā niú rù chéng jì

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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文 文 wén language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 HSK 7
哦 哦 é to chant HSK 7
之 之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
心惊肉跳 心驚肉跳 xīn jīng ròu tiào lit. heart alarmed, body leaping (idiom); fear and trepidation in the face of disaster Idiom ∼HSK 6
千载难逢 千載難逢 qiān zǎi nán féng extremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon Idiom ∼HSK 6
三头六臂 三頭六臂 sān tóu - liù bì lit. (having) three heads and six arms (idiom); fig. superhuman abilities; exceptional capability Idiom ∼HSK 6
贱人 賤人 jiàn rén slut; cheap person Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
肉麻 肉麻 ròu má sickening; corny; sappy; maudlin; fulsome (of praise) Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
贱货 賤貨 jiàn huò bitch; slut Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
不成 不成 bù chéng won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? Xiehouyu HSK 6
宰了 宰了 zǎi le (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
臭屁 臭屁 chòu pì (coll.) self-important; puffed up Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
老娘 老孃 lǎo niáng my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
就算 就算 jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
雷 雷 léi thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) Colloquialism HSK 6
嘛 嘛 má used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
有没有 有沒有 yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
阴招 陰招 yīn zhāo dirty trick ∼HSK 6
阿公 阿公 ā gōng (old) grandfather; polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law; (Taiwanese) grandfather ∼HSK 6
拳手 拳手 quán shǒu boxer ∼HSK 6
打拳 打拳 dǎ quán to do shadowboxing ∼HSK 6
揍死 揍死 zòu sǐ to beat to death ∼HSK 6
仙人跳 仙人跳 xiān rén tiào confidence trick in which a man is lured by an attractive woman ∼HSK 6
小巷 小巷 xiǎo xiàng alley ∼HSK 6
假扮 假扮 jiǎ bàn to impersonate; to act the part of sb; to disguise oneself as sb else ∼HSK 6
他娘的 他孃的 tā niáng de same as ∼HSK 6
加薪 加薪 jiā xīn to raise salary ∼HSK 6
干爹 乾爹 gān diē adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) ∼HSK 6
天文台 天文臺 tiān wén tái astronomical observatory ∼HSK 6
泻药 瀉藥 xiè yào laxative ∼HSK 6
茶壶 茶壺 chá hú teapot ∼HSK 6
拳王 拳王 quán wáng boxing champion ∼HSK 6
出人命 出人命 chū rén mìng fatal; resulting in sb's death ∼HSK 6
古灵精怪 古靈精怪 gǔ líng - jīng guài (idiom) mischievously clever; whimsically quirky ∼HSK 6
河粉 河粉 hé fěn hor fun, a type of wide, flat rice noodle ∼HSK 6
薄情 薄情 bó qíng inconstant in love; fickle ∼HSK 6
下注 下注 xià zhù to pour; to pour down (of rain); to lay a bet ∼HSK 6
酬谢 酬謝 chóu xiè to thank with a gift ∼HSK 6
漂流 漂流 piāo liú to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting ∼HSK 6
洋房 洋房 yáng fáng Western-style house ∼HSK 6
手印 手印 shǒu yìn handprint; fingerprint; thumbprint ∼HSK 6
护着 護著 hù zhe to protect; to guard; to shield ∼HSK 6
多采 多采 duō cǎi variant of ∼HSK 6
小便 小便 xiǎo biàn urine; to urinate; (euphemism) penis or vulva ∼HSK 6
传宗接代 傳宗接代 chuán zōng jiē dài to carry on one's ancestral line ∼HSK 6
赌钱 賭錢 dǔ qián to gamble ∼HSK 6
情话 情話 qíng huà terms of endearment; words of love ∼HSK 6
情意 情意 qíng yì friendly regard; affection ∼HSK 6
冤家 冤家 yuān jia enemy; foe; (in opera) sweetheart or destined love ∼HSK 6
冤大头 冤大頭 yuān dà tóu spendthrift and foolish; sb with more money than sense ∼HSK 6