The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk 1993
方世玉
The secret Red Lotus Flower Society is committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of members of that secret society. Meanwhile, Canton kung fu practitioner Fong Sai-Yuk falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant.
Vocabulary
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| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 作威作福 作威作福 | tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people | Idiom |
| 短小精悍 短小精悍 | (of a person) short but plucky (idiom); (of an article) concise and forceful | Idiom |
| 丰衣足食 豐衣足食 | having ample food and clothing (idiom); well fed and clothed | Idiom |
| 国泰民安 國泰民安 | the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity | Idiom |
| 名不虚传 名不虛傳 | (idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved | Xiehouyu |
| 命根子 命根子 | lifeblood; the thing that one cherishes most in life; (coll.) family jewels (male genitals) | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 以德服人 以德服人 | to win people over by virtue (idiom); to rule or persuade through moral example | |
| 招亲 招親 | select a spouse | |
| 提督 提督 | the local commander; provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times) | |
| 这么样 這麼樣 | thus; in this way | |
| 泪痕 淚痕 | tear stains | |
| 作弄 作弄 | to tease; to play tricks on | |
| 接力赛 接力賽 | relay race | |
| 圣约 聖約 | covenant | |
| 胸襟 胸襟 | lapel of jacket; heart; aspiration; vision | |
| 拳打 拳打 | to punch | |
| 凡心 凡心 | reluctance to leave this world; heart set on the mundane | |
| 反贼 反賊 | (imperial China) rebel; traitor; (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary; (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles) | |
| 列祖列宗 列祖列宗 | one's ancestors; all the generations of forebears (idiom) | |
| 各为其主 各為其主 | each serves his own master (idiom); everyone is loyal to his own side | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
| 安枕 安枕 | to sleep soundly; (fig.) to rest easy; to be free of worries | |
| 山贼 山賊 | brigand | |
| 龟公 龜公 | pimp | |
| 洋鬼子 洋鬼子 | foreign devil; term of abuse for Westerners | |
| 出招 出招 | to make a move (in martial arts or figuratively) | |
| 一程 一程 | a journey | |
| 显身 顯身 | show one's true form | |
| 竖起 豎起 | to erect (a tent etc); to prick up (one's ears); to raise (one's eyebrows); to stick up (one's thumb); to turn up (one's collar); (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers) | |
| 干你娘 幹你娘 | (Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother") | |
| 大盗 大盜 | thief; bandit (esp. one who has gained notoriety) | |
| 扬名 揚名 | to become famous; to become notorious | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 老板娘 老闆娘 | female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife | |
| 出人命 出人命 | fatal; resulting in sb's death | |
| 何止 何止 | far more than; not just | |
| 护着 護著 | to protect; to guard; to shield | |
| 莫名 莫名 | inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable | |
| 和睦相处 和睦相處 | to live in harmony; to get along with each other | |
| 不负 不負 | to live up to |