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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| 你 你 | you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您) | |
| 在 在 | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) | |
| 是 是 | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion) | |
| 我 我 | I; me; my | |
| 了 了 | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | |
| 的 的 | of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute); (used to form a nominal expression); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs | |
| 姪 姪 | Rare | |
| 牠 牠 | Rare | |
| 徬 徬 | irresolute | Rare |
| 揹 揹 | Rare | |
| 阿 阿 | abbr. for country names that begin with: Algeria, Afghanistan etc | Interjection |
| 喔 喔 | (interjection) oh; I see (used to indicate realization, understanding) | Interjection |
| 唷 唷 | (interjection expressing surprise) Oh!; My! | Interjection |
| 啰 囉 | used in and | Interjection |
| 吱 吱 | (onom.) creaking or groaning | Onomatopoeia |