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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Vocabulary

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踢 踢 tī to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) HSK 6
法庭 法庭 fǎ tíng court of law HSK 6
炒 炒 chǎo to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) HSK 6
赚 賺 zhuàn to earn; to make a profit HSK 6
塞 塞 Sāi Serbia; Serbian; abbr. for 塞尔维亚 HSK 6
印 印 yìn to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image HSK 6
党 黨 dǎng party; association; club; society HSK 6
算是 算是 suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
罪 罪 zuì guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin HSK 6
解 解 jiě to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection HSK 6
州 州 zhōu prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland) HSK 6
情绪 情緒 qíng xù mood; state of mind; moodiness HSK 6
服 服 fú clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
副 副 fù secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions HSK 6
利 利 lì sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit HSK 6
尽 儘 jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
赛 賽 sài to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel HSK 6
入 入 rù to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
于 于 yú (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
口口声声 口口聲聲 kǒu kou shēng shēng to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again Idiom ∼HSK 5
旁门左道 旁門左道 páng mén zuǒ dào dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group Idiom ∼HSK 5
先礼后兵 先禮後兵 xiān lǐ - hòu bīng lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom); fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war Idiom ∼HSK 5
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
慌里慌张 慌裡慌張 huāng li huāng zhāng flustered; in a panic Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
臭 臭 chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
胡子 鬍子 hú zi beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit Colloquialism HSK 5
慌 慌 huāng to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly Colloquialism HSK 5
熊 熊 xióng bear; (coll.) to scold; to rebuke; (coll.) weak; incapable Colloquialism HSK 5
甚 甚 shèn what (literary, = 什么) ∼HSK 5
么 麼 me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
箍 箍 gū hoop; bind, surround ∼HSK 5
颈 頸 gěng neck, throat ∼HSK 5
婶 嬸 shěn wife of father's younger brother ∼HSK 5
神经病 神經病 shén jīng bìng mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case ∼HSK 5
拜 拜 bài bow, worship ∼HSK 5
傻里傻气 傻裡傻氣 shǎ li shǎ qì foolish; stupid ∼HSK 5
叉烧 叉燒 chā shāo char siu; barbecued pork ∼HSK 5
俺 俺 ǎn I, me (northern dialect) ∼HSK 5
胡说八道 胡說八道 hú shuō bā dào to talk rubbish ∼HSK 5
碟 碟 dié small dish, plate ∼HSK 5
老爷 老爺 lǎo ye master, sir ∼HSK 5
淫虫 淫蟲 yín chóng sex maniac ∼HSK 5
婆 婆 pó old woman; grandmother ∼HSK 5
糟了 糟了 zāo le gosh!; oh no!; darn! ∼HSK 5
姑 姑 gū paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary) ∼HSK 5
嚓 嚓 cā a cracking or snapping sound ∼HSK 5
莲 蓮 lián lotus, water lily; paradise ∼HSK 5
阿婆 阿婆 ā pó granny; mother-in-law ∼HSK 5