The Mad Phoenix 1997
南海十三郎
A Cantonese librettist enjoys immense popularity over the course of decades, followed by decline.
Vocabulary
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| 恨 恨 | to hate; to regret | |
| 愿 願 | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 舞 舞 | to dance; to wield; to brandish | |
| 版 版 | a register; block of printing; edition; version; page | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 拒绝 拒絕 | to refuse; to decline; to reject | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 执行 執行 | to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run | |
| 恢复 恢復 | to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 居然 居然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 哈 哈 | (interj.) ha!; (onom. for laughter); (slang) to be infatuated with; to adore; abbr. for 奇, husky (dog) | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 三言两语 三言兩語 | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | Idiom |
| 家道中落 家道中落 | to come down in the world (idiom); to suffer a reversal of fortune | Idiom |
| 落花流水 落花流水 | to be in a sorry state; to be utterly defeated | Idiom |
| 不学无术 不學無術 | without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent | Idiom |
| 发奋图强 發奮圖強 | to make an effort to become strong (idiom); determined to do better; to pull one's socks up | Idiom |
| 一言为定 一言為定 | (idiom) it's a deal; that's settled then | Idiom |
| 知难而退 知難而退 | lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom); fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like | Idiom |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 案子 案子 | long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job | Colloquialism |
| 拉肚子 拉肚子 | (coll.) to have diarrhea | Colloquialism |
| 脱光 脫光 | to strip naked; to strip nude; (coll.) to find oneself a partner | Colloquialism |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 垃圾 垃圾 | trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 帅 帥 | (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 太史公 太史公 | Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian refers to himself in Records of the Historian | Proper Noun |
| 粤剧 粵劇 | Cantonese opera | Proper Noun |