Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Xifeng Taken by Surprise Gives Ways to Jealousy
S1E17 · 变生不测凤姐泼醋
Vocabulary
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| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 今儿个 今兒個 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 打的 打的 | (coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi | Colloquialism |
| 明儿个 明兒個 | (coll.) tomorrow | Colloquialism |
| 小两口 小兩口 | (coll.) young married couple | Colloquialism |
| 这会儿 這會兒 | (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] | Colloquialism |
| 奶奶 奶奶 | (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother); (respectful) mistress of the house; (coll.) boobies; breasts | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 姊妹 姊妹 | (older and younger) sisters; sister (school, city etc) | Proper Noun |
| 里人 里人 | person from the same village, town or province; peasant (derog.); (of a school of thought etc) follower | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 二奶 二奶 | mistress; second wife; lover | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 你我 你我 | you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) | |
| 这就 這就 | immediately; at once | |
| 蹄子 蹄子 | hoof; (old) wench; hussy | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 再不 再不 | or else; alternatively | |
| 星 星 | a star, planet; any point of light | |
| 并不 並不 | not at all; by no means | |
| 坏了 壞了 | shoot!; gosh!; oh, no!; (suffix) to the utmost | |
| 几个 幾個 | a few; several; how many | |
| 看不见 看不見 | cannot see; cannot be seen; invisible | |
| 一口 一口 | readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 玩笑 玩笑 | to joke; joke; jest | |
| 二十 二十 | twenty; 20 | |
| 好玩 好玩 | amusing; fun; interesting | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 有钱 有錢 | well-off; wealthy | |
| 家的 家的 | (old) wife | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 说出 說出 | to speak out; to declare (one's view) | |
| 那天 那天 | that day; the other day | |
| 明 明 | bright, light, brilliant; clear | |
| 不明 不明 | not clear; unknown; to fail to understand |