The Flying Guillotine 1975
血滴子
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head.
Vocabulary
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| 这样 這樣 | this kind of; so; this way; like this; such | |
| 得 得 | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc | |
| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | 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 |
| 今儿 今兒 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 明儿 明兒 | (coll.) tomorrow; one of these days; some day | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 一块儿 一塊兒 | erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | 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 |
| 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 |
| 关外 關外 | beyond the pass, i.e. the region north and east of Shanhai Pass or the region west of Jiayu Pass or both | Proper Noun |
| 山东 山東 | Shandong Province, capital Jinan | Proper Noun |
| 百里 百里 | two-character surname Baili | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 叩见 叩見 | to kowtow in salute | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 明 明 | bright, light, brilliant; clear | |
| 不明 不明 | not clear; unknown; to fail to understand | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 这位 這位 | this (person) | |
| 回京 回京 | to return to the capital | |
| 哥儿 哥兒 | brothers; boys | |
| 老弟 老弟 | (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy; old pal | |
| 他妈的 他媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 几个 幾個 | a few; several; how many | |
| 刽子手 劊子手 | executioner; headsman; slaughterer; fig. indiscriminate murderer | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 在那儿 在那兒 | (adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else); just...ing (and nothing else) | |
| 慢走 慢走 | Stay a bit!; Wait a minute!; (to a departing guest) Take care! | |
| 累坏 累壞 | to become exhausted | |
| 开门 開門 | to open a door (lit. and fig.); to open for business |