Oct 29, 2023
《命轉情真》 (1999) | “Life for Life”
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《命轉情真》 (1999) | “Life for Life”
「大妹，呢本書呢原來好多料爆㗎！」
“Dai-mui*, this magazine actually has so much juicy gossip!”
*Dai-mui is not actually her name, more a nickname used within (the character's) family.
「嗰個李吸塵*呀原來同佢女朋友同居咗三年㗎嘞！」
“That Vacuum* Lee has actually been cohabiting with his girlfriend for 3 years already!”
* 李吸塵 (pron. Lei⁵ Kap¹ Can⁴ — 李 can sound like 你 nei⁵, meaning “you”, and 吸塵 means “suck dust”, so this joke name means, “you suck dust”) is a pun on singer/actor Hacken Lee's Chinese name 李克勤 (pron. Lei⁵ Hak¹ Kan⁴).
The actual spoken dialogue was on point but the subs actually got the pun wrong! orz 😹 吸 should've been used in place of 克 for the joke to have been effective in Cantonese!
「仲有呀，嗰個撈麵*呀一氣買五疊樓呀！」
“And that Lo Mein*, buying 5 properties in one go!”
* 撈麵 (pron. Lo¹/Lo⁴ Min⁶ — a type of Chinese noodle dish, more commonly known to Westerners/globally as Lo-mein) is a pun on actor Lo Mang's name, 羅莽 (pron. Lo⁴ Mong⁵).
「仲有嗰個郭小人*呀住喺佢哋樓下呀嘛！」
“And that Petty Kwok* is living in the same apartment block as them both right?!”
* 郭小人 (pron. Kwok³ Siu² Jan⁴ — 小人, which literally means “small person” can mean an “ungracious and petty person”) is a pun on actress Florence Kwok's Chinese name 郭少芸 (pron. Kwok³ Siu² Wan⁴).
↑ L: Hacken Lee, R: Lo Mang, both also star in this series.
↑ L: Florence Kwok
「醒目！」 “Clever!”
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「望咩呀？！矮仔！」
“Whatcha' looking at?! Midget!”
「望咩？！大山婆！」
“Whatcha' looking at?! Gigantor!”
「你呀！做我人質，行！」
“You! You're my hostage! Move it!”
「做人質？！做人質搵女人！」
“Hostage?! You should look for a woman to be a hostage!”
「我以事論事，人質梗係搵女人㗎喇！* 梗係大聲啲，同情你…」
“I'm just saying it like it is, women of course make better hostages! * Louder (for the people at the back?), have some pity…(?)”
* As his sentence was cut off midspeech, unclear what would have been said.
「呢個世界而家男女平等，做人質冇一定要女人！」
“This world is now equal for the sexes, women hostages aren't a given!”
「尤其是你！奀挑鬼命，易得啲㗎嘛！」
“You especially! Exceptionally scrawny and weak, so much easier (with you as a hostage)!”
「我呢個鋼條型好對手㗎！又瘦，有虛位…」
“This hard steel bar shape (body) of mine is really good at fighting! And skinny to boot, good chance to wriggle…(free?)”
「唔殺得你哋個個都唔識驚！」
“You don't know what being afraid is until I kill you all, is it!”
《命轉情真》 (1999) | 第二集
新詞：
大山婆 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 daai⁶ saan¹ po⁴)
奀挑鬼命 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 ngan¹ tiu¹ gwai² meng⁶)