Editing Firefly chinese slang

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*[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Basic_firefly_slang to basic firefly slang]

=A=
*A knot of self-indulgent lunacy: Fang zong feng kuang de jie
*A real bastard!: Ge zhen de hun dan!
*A switch to those girls' backsides is just good enough: Bian da ta men de bei jiu gou le
*Abracadabra-alakazam: Tian-ling-ling, di-ling-ling
*Accusing someone of lying, a ridiculous notion, or talking out of the posterior: Fang pi, literally "to break wind"
*Act blindly: Bi se yan jing zhuo ma que, literally "try to catch sparrows with one's eyes blindfolded"
*Agitate someone out of hiding: Da chow jing ser, literally, "beating the grass to startle the snake"
*Aah!: Ai ya!
*Alas: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
*All talk: Da chong wu dan, literally "big gun, no bullet"
*All that is proper: Suo you de dou shi dang
*All the planets in space shoved up my butt: Tai kong suo you de xing qiu sai jin wo de pi gu
*Alliance: Tong meng
*An absolute genius: Zhen de shi tian cai
*Are we clear?: Dong le ma
*As far as the eye can see: Yi wang wu ji, literally "look afar no bound"
*Ass-kicking killer: Xiong can sha shou
*Attributing an unfortunate longshot occurrence: Yeh lu jwo duo luh jwohn whei jian gui, literally "do enough nighttime travels and one will eventually see a ghost"; also a warning of future retribution.
*Awesome: Gao gan, literally "high pole"
*AWOL: Kai xiao chai

=B=
*Baboon's arse: Fei fei pi gu
*Baboon's arse crack: Fei fei de pi yan
*Bastard: Hun dan, literally "rotten egg"
* Boss or operator of a business: Lao ban; Lao ban ni'un for a female boss or proprietor's wife. Also informal appellation for acquaintances.
*Big Brother, Older Brother: Ge or Ge-Ge, the former is more intimate and connotes a blood relation.
*Big stupid pile of stinking meat: Yi dwei da buen chuo roh
*Big Sister, Older Sister: Jie or Jei-Jei
*Blessing on you: Zhu fu ni
*Blindside or conspire against someone secretly: Fahn leong jian, literally "shoot a cold arrow"
*Bon Appetit!: Nin chi hao
*Boss: Lao ban. Also informal appellation for acquaintances.
*Boss (Female): Lao ban ni'un. Also informal appellation for acquaintances.
*Bottoms up: Gan bei, literally "dry cup"
*Brilliant: Jing cai
*Browncoat: Zong yi

=C=
*Cheap floozy: Jian huo
*Check it out, inspect: Jian cha
*Check at once: Ma shang jian cha
*Cheering or urging someone on: Jia you, literally "add fuel", equivalent of "go (name)!" in English.
*Cheers: Gan bei, literally "dry cup"
*Chinese/Mandarin language: Jwohn Guo Hua
*Cool: Ku
*Come in, enter: Qing jin
*Commit blunder of great magnitude: Bie wu long
*Complete disarray or sheer pandemonium: Tian fuhn di fu, literally "sky tumbles while earth turns over"
*Completely useless: Tian di wu yong
*Congratulations: Gong xi
*Conniving or scheming person: Gui tou gui nao, literally "ghost head ghost brain"
*Consistently useless: Jing-chang mei yong de
*Cow Dung: Niu shi
*Cow Poop: Niu fen
*Cow sucking: Xi niu
*Crap: Gou shi
*Crap: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
*Crazy dog in love with its own feces: Ai chr jze se duh fohn diang gou
*Cursing: Ma jung hwa, literally "chastise with dirty words"
*Cute: Ke ai ,ass hold

=D=
*Damn, my god: Ai ya
*Damn it: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
*Danger/Dangerous: Wei xian
*Dangerous person or animal: Wei xian dong wu
*Darling: Bao bei
*Daydream or wishful thinking: Bai ri meng
*Deserving of bad consequence or fate: Hwo gai
*Despicable: Kuh wu
*Do something for nothing in return, or wasted endeavor without a payoff: Yee yan, literally "a charity show".
*Done for: Wan dan, literally "finished (cooked) egg"
*Don't worry: Fang xin
*Dumbass: Chun, descriptive literally "retarded"
=E=
*Earthshaking: Jing tian dwohn di, literally "startle the sky and shake the earth"
*Empty Threat: Da chong wu dan, literally "big gun, no bullet"
*Engage a monkey in a feces-hurling contest: Gen hou zi bi diu shi
*Enough of this nonsense: Gou huang tang
*Everyone shut up!: Ni men dou bi zui!
*Everything under the sky: Tian shia, can be used to allude to the world or the universe
*Excrement: Mi tian gong
*Explosive diarrhea of an elephant: Da xiang bao zha shi de la du zi
*Extraordinarily clever: Gao gan, literally "high pole"
*Extraordinarily impatient Buddha: Zhen mei nai xing de Fo zu
=F=
*Fear nothing but (fill in the blank): Tian bu pa, di bu pa, tze pa...
*Fellow: Ja hwo
*Female companion or girlfriend: Ma tze, a somewhat derogatory slang; add Dow in front for "looking for a girlfriend"
*Filthy fornicators of livestock: He chu-sheng za-jiao de zang-huo!
*Fire!: Kai huo (as in shooting), fen huo (as in starting)
*Fire at will or terminate with extreme prejudice: Da kai sa jeh, meaning "breaking the Buddhist vow against killing"
*Flat-chested: Hur bao dan, slang, literally "eggs cooked sunny-side up"
*Foiled or ruined at the last moment: Soh ya fei tian, expression, literally "a cooked duck flies away"
*Fool: Sha gua, literally "stupid melonhead", or ben dan, literally "stupid egg"
*Friend, pal, buddy: Peng you
*Frog-humping son of a bitch: Qing wa cao de liu mang
*Fuck!: Ta ma de! (vulgar term)

=G=
*Gang, crew, or confederate of diehards: Se duhng
*Gang or faction leader: Da gher ga for male, da jeh da for female, slang
*Garbage: Le se
*Get bold or audacious: Fang dan, literally "release courage"
*Get lost: Kwai jio kai
*Go all out, hold nothing back: Ping ming, literally "fight for one's life"
*Go away: Kuai qu hen yuan de di fang, literally "go far away very fast"
*Go die: Chui se
*Go to hell: Chui se, literally "go die"
*God knows what / name of all that's sacred: Tian xiao de
*Goddamn monsters: Tian sha de e mo
*Good: Hao
*Good-for-nothing: Bu lang bu you
*Good journey or bon voyage: Yi lu shun feng, or yi lu ping an
*Good luck: Ju hao yun
*Great: Da bian hua, literally "big change"
*Greetings: Nihao

=H=
*Handsome: Shuai
*Happy development or fortuitous turn of event: How shi sung chung, literally "a good show's about to start", can be used sarcastically
*Have desires above one's social/financial position, or beyond one's ability to realize: Lai huh ma shi yong tze tian e zoh, literally "for a toad to think of eating a swan"
*Hell: Gui, literally "ghost"
*Hell, underworld: Di yu
*Hello: Nihao
*Hey!: Wei
*Holy testicle (exclamation): Shen sheng de gao wan
*Home wrecking tramp: Hu li jing, literally "fox spirit"
*Horrible old tyrant: Ke-wu de lao bao jun
*Hurry or make haste: Gan mang
=I=
*I don't believe my eyes!: Wo bu shin wo dah yan jing
*I neither see nor hear you: Wo dui ni bu wen bu jian
*I'm sorry: Dui bu qi
*Idiot: Ben dan, literally "stupid egg", or chun zhu, literally "retarded pig"
*Imminent Doom: Wan dan, literally "finished (cooked) egg"
*Impossible: Bu ke neng
*Impressive display or visage but no substance: Da chong wu dan, literally "big gun, no bullet"
*In the doghouse: Leng gong, literally "a cold palace," which is where an emperor confines those concubines who have fallen out of favor
*In that case, nevermind: Na mei guan xi
=J=
*Jerk: Hun dan, literally "rotten egg"
*Junk: Fei wu
*Just our luck: Zhen dao mei
=K=
*Kick me in the butt: Ti wo de pi gu
=L=
*Leader of a criminal operation: She tou, literally "snakehead", derogatory.
*Leave one to his own fate: Tze sh'un tze mieh
*Let me repeat myself: Wuo jai jeong yi chi
*Let's take a deep breath: Yi qi shen hu xi
*Life support failure: Shuhn ming shi t'wohn gu jong
*Like hell/In your dreams: Jian ta de gui, literally "see his ghost", or jian gui which likely means "seeing ghosts"
*Little Brother: Di or Di-Di
*Little Sister: Mei or Mei-Mei
*Long time no see: Hao joh bu jian
*Loopy in the head: Feng le, literally "insane"
=M=
*Male companion or boyfriend: Kai tze, also a somewhat derogatory slang
*Make a big mistake: Bie wu long
*Make an example of someone: Sha ji gei hou kan, literally "kill a chicken in front of a monkey"
*Merciful Buddha protect us: Ren ci de Fo zu qing bao you wo men
*Merciful God, please take me away: Ren ci de shang di, qing dai wo zou
*Merciless Bastard: Leng xue za zhong, literally "cold-blooded mixed-breed"
*Merciless Hell: Ai ya tian a!
*Mind your own business: Guan ni ziji de shi
*Miss: xiao jie, literally "little lady." Follows a name when addressing a known person, so River Tam would be addressed as Tam River xiao jie, or simply Tam xiao jie.
*Mister: xian sheng, literally "born before me." Follows a name when addressing a known person, so Simon Tam would be addressed as Tam Simon xian sheng, or simply Tam xian sheng.
*Monkey raping: Qiang bao hou-zi de
*Monkey's butt: Hou-zi de pi-gu
*Moron: Ben dan, literally "stupid egg", or chun zhu, literally "retarded pig"
*Mother of God: Wo de ma
*Mother of God and all her crazy nephews: Wo de ma he ta de fen kuang de wai sheng dou
*Motherless goat of all motherless goats: Gao yang zhong de gu yang
*Muddled, Mixed-up, Confused: Wu tou wu nao, literally "without a head or a brain"
=N=
*No problem: Mei wen ti
*No way: Cai bu shi
*(a) Nobody: Wu ming shao zu, literally "nameless little footsoldier"
*Nonsense, rubbish, superfluous words: Fei hua
*Not advised: Quan gao bu yi
*Not enough: Bu gou, or Hai bu gou for "not enough yet"
*Not good: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
*Not keeping a rendezvous: Fang ge zi, literally "release a pigeon" but insinuating not picking up the bird at the destination.
*Not much of a choice between the two: Ban jin ba liang
*Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Bu ru hu xue yan de hu zi, literally "how can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair"
*Now, immediately: Ma shang
*Nuts: Shiang Jing Ping, or just Shiang Jing; Fah Shiang Jing for "going nuts"
*Nuts: Kuang zhe de, literally "crazy"
=O=
*Oddball or Goof: Chai Neow
*Of course: Dang ran
*Oh, this is a happy development: O, zhe zhen shi ge kuai le de jin zhan
*Oh God, no: Lao tian, bu
*Oh my God: Wo de tian a
*Okay: Hao
*Old: Lao
*Old friend: Lao peng you
*Old man / husband: Lao gong
*Old lady / wife: Lao po
*One must be ruthless to be great: Wu du bu zhong fu, literally "a person without poison is not a great man"
*Out of touch with reality: Bi mu se ting, "shut one's eyes and stop up one's ears"
*Outdo someone or doing one better: Dao-gao-yee-chi moh-gao-yee-juhn, expression, literally "the solution advances a yard, the problem advances a mile"
*Over my dead body: Chu fei wo si le
=P=
*Pal: Lao xiong, "old chap", between male friends
*Panda urine: Xiong mao niao
*Paranoid, extremely suspicious: Bei gong she ying, literally "mistaking the reflection of a bow in the cup for a snake"
*Pathetic wretch: Bei bi xiao ren, literally "shameless little dirty person"
*Peon: Wu ming shao zu, literally "nameless little footsoldier"
*Petty: Suo xi
*Prehistoric: Lao Diu Ya, literally "so old as to lose all teeth"
*Pig's Sty: Zhu fuen chse
*Pile of sun-baked dog poo: Ri shao gou shi bing
*Plain, bland, bare: Yong chwen mien, slang taken from the namesake generic, flavorless noodle dish.
*Please be quiet: Qing an jing yi dien
*Pool of Excrement: F'n Zse
*Pool of pig droppings: Zhu fuen chse
*Posterior, bottom, butt: Pi gu
*Precious: Bao bei
=R=
*Real man, manly man, gentleman: Nan zi han
*Really Dangerous: Wei xian, more poetic, wo hu chung long, which is "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" and expression for something dangerous.
*Remorseless harridan: Bu hui hen de po fu
*Retreat, run away: Jio weh sung chiuh, phrase summarizing the last of the Chinese "36 Stratagems", which extols the virtue of fleeing to fight another day.
*Ridiculously strange, illogical or nonsensical: Mo ming qi miao, literally "not understanding the peculiarity"
*Ruined, finished: Wan dan le
*Ruthless or savage beast of a person: Ching soh

=S=
*Scoundrel: Huai dan, literally "bad egg"
*Screw him/her running: Gun ta jwo lu
*Screw you: Qu ni de
*Shameless Hussy: Meh lian duh jyah ji, literally "faceless bastard prostitute"
*Shiny, awesome, fantastic: Jahn!
*Shit on my head! (or another expletive): Ai ya, huai le!
*Shut up: Bi zui
*Shut up (as in, 'Get out' or 'yeah right'): Hu che
*Shut up, all of you!: Ni men dou bi zui!
*Shut up and make us wealthy: Bi zui, rong wo men fa cai
*Shut up, you inconsiderate schoolboys!: Bi zui, nin hen bu ti tie de nan sheng!
*Sir: Da yeh. When used as a nobility, Nuhn Jwei, following the name.
*Small fry: Wu ming shao zu, literally "nameless little footsoldier"
*Smelled a fart: Wen guo pi
*So guilty as to deserve a thousand deaths: Jwei gai wang se
*SOB: Wang ba dan, or gou neong yung de for a more literal and vicious translation.
*Speak now and quickly: Yo hua kuai so
*Speaking without a clue: Xia hua, literally "blind talk"
*Splendid: Jing cai
*Stop talking: Ju kou
*Stubborn disciplinarian: Pian zhi de jie cha yuan
*Stupid: Yu ben de
*Stupid son of a drooling whore and monkey: Liu kou shui de biao zi he hou zi de ben er zi
*Stupid inbred sack of meat: Ben tian sheng de yi dui rou
*Sweetheart: Bao bei
*Swindle: Guai
*Suicidal idea: Zu sha zhu yi
*Surrender, give up: Tou xiang

=T=
*Take care, stay healthy: Bao zhong, literally "maintain weight"
*Talk nonsense: Shia suo
*Teacher: Lao shi
*Thanks: Xie xie
*There's nothing in this plan that isn't horrific: Zhe ge ji hua zhen ke pa
*Things never go smooth: Hao yun bu lai, huai yun bu jwo, literally "good luck don't come, bad luck don't leave"
*Time out!: Yi qi shen hu xi, literally "Let's take a deep breath"
*To throw in a monkey wrench: Gwai ma jiao, literally "twist a horse's legs (while it's galloping)"
*Too bad: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
*Trouble, problem, complication: Ma fan
*Troublemaker: Wan nao
*Tyrant, iron-fisted ruler: Ba wang
*Ugly or perverted person: Zhu Bajie, insult taken from the name of the hoggish, lecherous character in the popular Chinese folktale, "Journey to the West"
=U=
*Understand: Dong, dong ma for "understand?" dong le ma for "are we clear here?"
*Unnecessarily complicating something, or overdoing it: Hua she tian zu, literally "draw a snake and add feet to it"
*Urine-soaked demons (or something to the effect): Niao shi de du-gui
=V=
*Very: Fei chang
*Violent lunatic: Xiong meng de kuang ren
*Vixen: Hu li jing, literally "fox spirit"
=W=
*Wah!: Wa, an exclamation. (Does NOT mean the sound of vomiting, as some have suggested.)
*Wait/hold on a second: Deng yi miao
*Warning someone against doing things 'the hard way': Jing zhou bu chi chi fa zhou, literally "choosing to sip the wine of penalty over that of respect"
*Watch your back: Zhen ta ma yao ming. Zhu yi. Literally "this is pretty damned dangerous. Pay attention"
*Water: Shui
*We will enjoy your silence now: Bai tuo, an jing yi dian
*We're in big trouble: Ai ya wo men wan le
*Weak-ass sauce: Lan dan jiang, literally "rotten egg sauce"
*What?: Shen me
*What is that?: Na shi shen me?
*What is this?: Zhe shi shen me?
*What a mess: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
*What is this garbage?: Zhe shi shen me lan dong xi?
*Whores in hell!: Ta shi suo you di yu de diao zi de ma!, literally "she is the mother of all prostitutes in hell"
*Whores of SOBs: Wang ba dan de biao zi
*Wonderful!: Pai an jiao jue, literally "slap the table and shout with praise"

=Y=
*Yes, affirmative: Shi a
*You don't deserve it: Ni bu ying de zhe ge, or Ni bu gou ge
*You fink/wretch/etc: Ni hun qiu
*You want a bullet right in your throat?: Ni yao wo kai qiang
*You wanna die?: Ni zhao si ma?
*You're all idiots: Ni men dou shi sha gua, literally "all of you are foolish"
*Young one: Nian qing de, or ying chi, slang for underaged (literally "infant teeth")