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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| 何方 何方 | from where | |
| 白醋 白醋 | white vinegar; plain vinegar | |
| 迷魂 迷魂 | to bewitch; to enchant; to cast a spell over sb | |
| 贵客 貴客 | honored guest | |
| 哄动 哄動 | variant of | |
| 为师 為師 | as your teacher | |
| 生肖 生肖 | one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches; animal from the Chinese zodiac | |
| 龟壳 龜殼 | tortoise shell | |
| 偿命 償命 | to pay with one's life | |
| 尊师重道 尊師重道 | 尊: respect, revere, venerate; honor · 师: teacher, master, specialist · 重: heavy, weighty; double · 道: path, road, street; method, way | |
| 卖乖 賣乖 | to show off one's cleverness; (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by | |
| 混饭 混飯 | to work for a living | |
| 以怨报德 以怨報德 | 以: by means of; thereby, therefore; consider as; in order to · 怨: hatred, enmity, resentment · 报: report, tell, announce · 德: ethics, morality, virtue | |
| 铲除 剷除 | to root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish | |
| 坛子 罈子 | jug (earthenware with a big belly and a small opening) | |
| 偏要 偏要 | to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything | |
| 即将来临 即將來臨 | imminent | |
| 下凡 下凡 | (of immortals) to descend to the human world | |
| 雷电 雷電 | thunder and lightning | |
| 急急如律令 急急如律令 | 急: quick, quickly; urgent, pressing · 急: quick, quickly; urgent, pressing · 如: if, supposing; as if; like, as · 律: statute, principle, regulation | |
| 奸贼 奸賊 | a traitor; a treacherous bandit | |
| 开炮 開砲 | to open fire | |
| 洋钱 洋錢 | foreign money; flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀元|银元 | |
| 沿路 沿路 | along the way; on the way; area beside a road | |
| 不解风情 不解風情 | unromantic; insensitive | |
| 公平竞争 公平競爭 | fair competition | |
| 用法 用法 | usage | |
| 摄取 攝取 | to absorb (nutrients etc); to assimilate; intake; to take a photograph of (a scene) | |
| 中外 中外 | Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad | |
| 不值 不值 | not worth | |
| 吉祥 吉祥 | lucky; auspicious; propitious | |
| 外头 外頭 | outside; out | |
| 馒头 饅頭 | steamed roll; steamed bun; steamed bread | |
| 更是 更是 | even more (so) | |
| 自学 自學 | self-study; to study on one's own | |
| 造反 造反 | to rebel; to revolt | |
| 把戏 把戲 | acrobatics; jugglery; trick; ploy | |
| 晾 晾 | to dry in the air; (fig.) to cold-shoulder | |
| 识字 識字 | to learn to read | |
| 加盟 加盟 | to become a member of an alliance or union; to align; to join; participate | |
| 一行 一行 | party; delegation | |
| 日夜 日夜 | day and night; around the clock | |
| 短片 短片 | short film; video clip | |
| 背着 背著 | carrying on one's back | |
| 广阔 廣闊 | wide; vast | |
| 巩固 鞏固 | to consolidate; consolidation; to strengthen | |
| 奏 奏 | to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old) | |
| 诸位 諸位 | (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 就是说 就是說 | in other words; that is |