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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| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 此 此 | this; these | |
| 选择 選擇 | to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 后会有期 後會有期 | I'm sure we'll meet again some day. (idiom); Hope to see you again. | Idiom |
| 嘻皮笑脸 嘻皮笑臉 | all smiles; smiling mischievously or ingratiatingly | Idiom |
| 别有用心 別有用心 | to have an ulterior motive (idiom) | Idiom |
| 找死 找死 | to court death; to take a big risk | Xiehouyu |
| 心上人 心上人 | sweetheart; one's beloved | Xiehouyu |
| 乱来 亂來 | to act recklessly; to mess around | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 大牛 大牛 | (coll.) leading light; superstar; badass; (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini | Colloquialism |
| 小牛 小牛 | calf; (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 马克沁 馬克沁 | Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun | Proper Noun |
| 古城 古城 | ancient city | Proper Noun |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 敌 敵 | enemy, foe, rival; resist | |
| 绝不 絕不 | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not | |
| 拍电影 拍電影 | to make a movie | |
| 别管 別管 | no matter (who, what etc) | |
| 使出 使出 | to use; to exert | |
| 到时候 到時候 | when the moment comes; at that time | |
| 谈谈 談談 | to discuss; to have a chat | |
| 成亲 成親 | to get married | |
| 留步 留步 | (said by departing guest) no need to see me out | |
| 保住 保住 | to preserve; to save | |
| 看相 看相 | to tell fortune by reading the subject's facial features | |
| 耳目 耳目 | eyes and ears; sb's attention or notice; information; knowledge; spies | |
| 心防 心防 | guardedness; wariness; mental defenses | |
| 世上 世上 | on earth | |
| 京城 京城 | capital of a country | |
| 魔法 魔法 | enchantment; magic | |
| 馆 館 | variant of | |
| 诸 諸 | various, all, these; surname | |
| 活活 活活 | while still alive; simply; totally | |
| 气死 氣死 | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger | |
| 银箔 銀箔 | silver foil | |
| 正史 正史 | the 24 or 25 official dynastic histories; true history, as opposed to fictional adaptation or popular legends | |
| 张嘴 張嘴 | to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape | |
| 旧历 舊曆 | old calendar; the Chinese lunar calendar; same as |