The Twins Effect 2003
千机变
An evil Duke attempts to kill and collect the blood of a royal family of European vampires in order to become all powerful. The only surviving member of the family travels to Hong Kong, only to complicate his struggle by falling in love with a mortal girl who just happens to have a vampire hunter for a brother.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 毛病 毛病 | fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 李小龙 李小龍 | Bruce Lee (1940-1973), Hong Kong actor and martial arts expert | Proper Noun |
| 成龙 成龍 | Jackie Chan (1954-), kungfu film and Cantopop star | Proper Noun |
| 红酒 紅酒 | red wine | |
| 少爷 少爺 | son of the boss; young master of the house; your son (honorific) | |
| 味 味 | taste, smell, odor; delicacy | |
| 艾 艾 | artemisia, mugwort; translit. | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 蕉 蕉 | banana; plantain | |
| 杀死 殺死 | to kill | |
| 传送 傳送 | to convey; to deliver; to transmit | |
| 血块 血塊 | blood clot | |
| 会死 會死 | mortal | |
| 干活 幹活 | to work; to be employed | |
| 新一代 新一代 | new generation | |
| 转位 轉位 | transposition; displacement; inversion; translocation; to displace; to transpose | |
| 每人 每人 | each person; everybody; per person | |
| 有气派 有氣派 | lordly | |
| 刀子 刀子 | knife | |
| 变心 變心 | to cease to feel a sense of loyalty (or gratitude etc) to sb or sth; to fall out of love with sb | |
| 体内 體內 | within the body; in vivo (vs in vitro); internal to | |
| 每个人 每個人 | everybody; everyone | |
| 内讧 內訌 | internal strife | |
| 父 父 | father; KangXi radical 88 | |
| 家传 家傳 | handed down in a family; family traditions | |
| 诺 諾 | promise; assent, approve | |
| 撮合 撮合 | to play matchmaker; to act as a middleman | |
| 记念 記念 | to commemorate; to honor the memory of (variant of) | |
| 心动 心動 | heartbeat; heart rate; (fig.) emotionally affected; aroused (of desire, emotion, interest etc) | |
| 合卺 合巹 | to share nuptial cup; (fig.) to get married | |
| 派对 派對 | (loanword) party | |
| 管他 管他 | no matter if; regardless of; don’t worry about (it, him etc); doesn’t matter | |
| 三代 三代 | three generations of a family; the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
| 气死 氣死 | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger | |
| 今时今日 今時今日 | this day and age (dialect) | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 有心 有心 | to have a mind to; to intend to; deliberately; considerate | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 不光 不光 | not the only one; not only | |
| 前后 前後 | around; from beginning to end; all around; front and rear | |
| 香蕉 香蕉 | banana | |
| 巧 巧 | opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely | |
| 热烈 熱烈 | enthusiastic; ardent; warm | |
| 基本上 基本上 | basically; on the whole | |
| 游泳 游泳 | swimming; to swim | |
| 手指 手指 | finger | |
| 才能 才能 | talent; ability; capacity | |
| 上来 上來 | to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success) |