Two Con Men 1975
扭计祖宗陈梦吉
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.
Vocabulary
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| 无辜 無辜 | innocent; innocence; not guilty (law) | |
| 众人 眾人 | everyone | |
| 无论如何 無論如何 | whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means | |
| 宁愿 寧願 | would rather ... (than ...) | |
| 烫 燙 | to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 熬 熬 | to boil; to simmer | |
| 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 | |
| 驾 駕 | 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) | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 堂 堂 | (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 | |
| 脖子 脖子 | neck | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 穿着 穿著 | attire; clothes; dress | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 计 計 | to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge | |
| 释放 釋放 | to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge | |
| 他人 他人 | another person; sb else; other people | |
| 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 | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 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 | |
| 德 德 | virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind | |
| 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 | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 不甘寂寞 不甘寂寞 | unwilling to remain lonely or idle; unwilling to be left out | Idiom |
| 罪有应得 罪有應得 | guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement; the punishment fits the crime | Idiom |
| 伤天害理 傷天害理 | to offend Heaven and reason (idiom); bloody atrocities that cry to heaven; outrageous acts | Idiom |
| 敲诈勒索 敲詐勒索 | extortion and blackmail (idiom) | Idiom |
| 鸡犬不宁 雞犬不寧 | lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom); fig. great commotion; pandemonium | Idiom |
| 大吉大利 大吉大利 | great luck, great profit (idiom); everything is thriving | Idiom |
| 诡计多端 詭計多端 | deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous; full of craft and cunning | Idiom |
| 轻举妄动 輕舉妄動 | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 以毒攻毒 以毒攻毒 | to cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief; to fight fire with fire | Idiom |
| 吃不了兜着走 吃不了兜著走 | 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 |
| 拍马屁 拍馬屁 | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |