The Lion Roars 2002
河东狮吼
During the Soong Dynasty, a beautiful woman named Liu is searching for a husband, but is unable to find one until she hears the avant-garde poetry of Chen. Soon the two are married and Chen discovers that his new bride is violently temperamental and insanely jealous, who limits his activities and lifestyle. When a princess falls in love with the poet and the Emperor decrees that Chen must take the princess in as a second-wife. The love between Liu and Chen is put to the test.
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Vocabulary
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| 保佑 保佑 | to bless and protect; blessing | |
| 讨 討 | to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study | |
| 何时 何時 | when | |
| 挥 揮 | to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 发型 髮型 | hairstyle; coiffure; hairdo | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 独 獨 | alone; independent; single; sole; only | |
| 伴 伴 | partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 尿 尿 | to urinate; urine | |
| 真心 真心 | sincere; heartfelt | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 患 患 | to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 粉 粉 | powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; to turn to powder; (dialect) to whitewash; white; pink; (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉丝); to be a fan of | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 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 | |
| 气宇轩昂 氣宇軒昂 | to have an imposing or impressive appearance; impressive appearance; straight and impressive looking | Idiom |
| 易如反掌 易如反掌 | easy as a hand's turn (idiom); very easy; no effort at all | Idiom |
| 鸣金收兵 鳴金收兵 | to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat | Idiom |
| 自相残杀 自相殘殺 | to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife | Idiom |
| 太平盛世 太平盛世 | peace and prosperity (idiom) | Idiom |
| 琼楼玉宇 瓊樓玉宇 | bejeweled jade palace (idiom); sumptuous dwelling | Idiom |
| 再生父母 再生父母 | like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor | Idiom |
| 天外有天 天外有天 | lit. beyond the sky there is another sky (idiom); fig. there is always someone better; no matter how good you are, others surpass you | Xiehouyu |
| 一家之主 一家之主 | master of the house; head of the family | Xiehouyu |
| 活得不耐烦 活得不耐煩 | to be tired of living; (coll.) to be asking for trouble | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 大姨妈 大姨媽 | mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother); (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period) | Colloquialism |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 主子 主子 | Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine) |