The Great Magician 2011
大魔术师
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
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Vocabulary
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| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 王爷 王爺 | prince; marquis; nobleman | |
| 失手 失手 | a slip; miscalculation; unwise move; accidentally; by mistake; to lose control; to be defeated | |
| 爪牙 爪牙 | pawn; lackey; accomplice (in crime); collaborator; henchman; claws and teeth | |
| 苦日子 苦日子 | hard times | |
| 摩 摩 | rub, scour, grind; friction | |
| 长官 長官 | senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; sir (term of address for senior officer) | |
| 首级 首級 | severed head | |
| 纪 紀 | record, annal, historical account | |
| 严明 嚴明 | strict and impartial; firm | |
| 刁民 刁民 | (derogatory) unruly people | |
| 结婚纪念日 結婚紀念日 | wedding anniversary | |
| 屁 屁 | break wind; fart; buttocks | |
| 相聚 相聚 | to meet together; to assemble | |
| 火烧 火燒 | to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake | |
| 骨 骨 | bone; skeleton; frame, framework | |
| 数来宝 數來寶 | folk theater consisting of recitation accompanied by clapper board rhythm | |
| 彩 彩 | hue, color; variegated colors | |
| 幸会 幸會 | nice to meet you | |
| 承 承 | inherit, receive; succeed | |
| 兵法 兵法 | art of war; military strategy and tactics | |
| 博 博 | gamble, play games; wide, broad | |
| 没办法 沒辦法 | there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it | |
| 三倍 三倍 | triple | |
| 出兵 出兵 | to send troops | |
| 大帅 大帥 | (old) commanding general; commander-in-chief; (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) | |
| 登场 登場 | to go on stage; fig. to appear on the scene; used in advertising to mean new product | |
| 侍卫 侍衛 | Imperial bodyguard | |
| 安危 安危 | safety and danger; safety | |
| 兵痞 兵痞 | army riffraff; army ruffian; soldier of fortune | |
| 下落不明 下落不明 | unaccounted; unknown whereabouts | |
| 后方 後方 | the rear; far behind the front line | |
| 抄家 抄家 | to search a house and confiscate possessions | |
| 老少咸宜 老少咸宜 | suitable for young and old | |
| 警卫 警衛 | to stand guard over; (security) guard | |
| 暗道 暗道 | secret passage; secret tunnel | |
| 国富兵强 國富兵強 | prosperous country with military might | |
| 肚 肚 | belly; abdomen; bowels | |
| 江湖 江湖 | rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.); ( | |
| 全无 全無 | none; completely without | |
| 才怪 才怪 | it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative) | |
| 转速 轉速 | angular velocity; number of revolutions per minute | |
| 魁首 魁首 | chief; first; brightest and best | |
| 把酒言欢 把酒言歡 | to drink and chat merrily (idiom) | |
| 松一口气 鬆一口氣 | to heave a sigh of relief | |
| 落得 落得 | ending up as; leading to; resulting in; in total | |
| 定能 定能 | to be definitely able (to do sth) | |
| 由怜生爱 由憐生愛 | to develop love for sb out of pity for them | |
| 心结 心結 | a matter that gnaws at one's mind; preoccupation; sore point; rancor |