Two Con Men

Two Con Men 1975

niǔ zōng chén mèng

This 1975 comedy is about two tricksters, one who is bad and will work for the highest bidder and the other who works always for good, a Robin Hood in China film.

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Vocabulary

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innocent; innocence; not guilty (law) HSK 7
zhòng rén everyone HSK 7
lùn whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means HSK 7
nìng yuàn would rather ... (than ...) HSK 7
tàng to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot HSK 7
diē dad HSK 7
āo to boil; to simmer HSK 7
tǎo 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 HSK 7
jià to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞) HSK 7
chèn to avail oneself of; to take advantage of HSK 7
xiā blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose HSK 7
zhǔn not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit HSK 7
yào otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) HSK 7
zéi thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely HSK 7
guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
táng (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture HSK 7
zi neck HSK 7
gu buttocks; bottom; butt; back part HSK 7
to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) HSK 7
gào to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue HSK 7
穿 穿 chuān zhuó attire; clothes; dress HSK 7
Dǒu abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 HSK 7
to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge HSK 7
shì fàng to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge HSK 7
rén another person; sb else; other people HSK 7
fěn 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 HSK 7
shī dead body; corpse; carcass HSK 7
jià (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) HSK 7
to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle HSK 7
suǒ wèi so-called; what is called HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
jīng classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 HSK 7
virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind HSK 7
(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 HSK 7
and; to reach; up to; in time for HSK 7
abbr. for Israel 列 HSK 7
zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
gān unwilling to remain lonely or idle; unwilling to be left out Idiom ∼HSK 6
zuì yǒu yīng guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement; the punishment fits the crime Idiom ∼HSK 6
shāng tiān hài to offend Heaven and reason (idiom); bloody atrocities that cry to heaven; outrageous acts Idiom ∼HSK 6
qiāo zhà suǒ extortion and blackmail (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
quǎn níng lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom); fig. great commotion; pandemonium Idiom ∼HSK 6
great luck, great profit (idiom); everything is thriving Idiom ∼HSK 6
guǐ duō duān deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous; full of craft and cunning Idiom ∼HSK 6
qīng wàng dòng to act blindly without thinking (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
gōng to cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief; to fight fire with fire Idiom ∼HSK 6
chī bu liǎo dōu zhe zǒu lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom); fig. you'll have to take the consequences Idiom ∼HSK 6
pāi to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
xiā shuō to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
jiàn rén slut; cheap person Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6