The New King of Comedy 2019
新喜剧之王
A young female actor dreams of becoming famous and building a successful career despite being a stand-in and extra on most sets.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 回头是岸 回頭是岸 | 回: return, turn around; a time · 头: head; top; chief, first; boss · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that · 岸: bank, shore; beach, coast | Idiom |
| 冤枉 冤枉 | to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly; injustice; wronged; not worthwhile | Xiehouyu |
| 丢人 丟人 | to lose face | Xiehouyu |
| 揍 揍 | to hit; to beat (sb); (coll.) to smash (sth) | Colloquialism |
| 受过 受過 | to take the blame (for sb else) | |
| 搞笑 搞笑 | to get people to laugh; funny; hilarious | |
| 怨气 怨氣 | grievance; resentment; complaint | |
| 启蒙 啟蒙 | to instruct the young; to initiate; to awake sb from ignorance; to free sb from prejudice or superstition; primer; enlightened; the Enlightenment; Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | |
| 绝招 絕招 | unique skill; unexpected tricky move (as a last resort); masterstroke; finishing blow | |
| 巫婆 巫婆 | witch; sorceress; female shaman | |
| 对白 對白 | dialogue (in a movie or a play) | |
| 个案 個案 | individual case; special case | |
| 虚荣 虛榮 | vanity | |
| 作对 作對 | to set oneself against; to oppose; to make a pair | |
| 甘心 甘心 | to be willing to; to resign oneself to | |
| 过问 過問 | to show an interest in; to get involved with | |
| 名著 名著 | masterpiece | |
| 汹涌 洶湧 | to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc); turbulent | |
| 饱满 飽滿 | full; plump | |
| 替身 替身 | stand-in; substitute; body double; stuntman; scapegoat; fall guy; to stand in for sb else | |
| 猩猩 猩猩 | orangutan; (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin | |
| 火锅 火鍋 | hotpot | |
| 荒 荒 | desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect | |
| 胡闹 胡鬧 | to act willfully and make a scene; to make trouble | |
| 拍戏 拍戲 | to shoot a movie | |
| 直视 直視 | to look straight at | |
| 煲 煲 | to cook slowly over a low flame; pot; saucepan | |
| 譬如 譬如 | for example; for instance; such as | |
| 谋生 謀生 | to seek one's livelihood; to work to support oneself; to earn a living | |
| 补救 補救 | to remedy | |
| 配音 配音 | dubbing (filmmaking) | |
| 风雨 風雨 | wind and rain; the elements; (fig.) trials and hardships | |
| 陷害 陷害 | to entrap; to set up; to frame (up); to make false charges against | |
| 过关 過關 | to cross a barrier; to get through (an ordeal); to pass (a test); to reach (a standard) | |
| 集结 集結 | to assemble; to concentrate; to mass; to build up; to marshal | |
| 饭碗 飯碗 | rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living | |
| 呛 嗆 | to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way) | |
| 灭亡 滅亡 | to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate | |
| 酝酿 醞釀 | (of alcohol) to ferment; (of a crisis) to be brewing; to mull over (an issue); to hold exploratory discussions | |
| 晕倒 暈倒 | to faint; to swoon; to black out; to become unconscious | |
| 奖项 獎項 | award; prize | |
| 让步 讓步 | to concede; to give in; to yield; a concession; (linguistics) concessive | |
| 立体 立體 | three-dimensional; solid; stereoscopic | |
| 好评 好評 | favorable criticism; positive evaluation | |
| 镇定 鎮定 | calm; unperturbed; cool | |
| 秘诀 秘訣 | secret know-how; key (to longevity); secret (of happiness); recipe (for success) | |
| 胡说 胡說 | to talk nonsense; drivel | |
| 皮带 皮帶 | strap; leather belt | |
| 演技 演技 | acting; performing skills | |
| 餐桌 餐桌 | dining table; dinner table |