Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
White Snow and Red Plum-Blossom in the Glassy World
S1E19 · 琉璃世界白雪红梅
Vocabulary
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| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 大雪 大雪 | Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December | Proper Noun |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 倒像 倒像 | (optics) inverted image | |
| 一句 一句 | a line of verse; a sentence | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 上夜 上夜 | to be on night duty | |
| 难为 難為 | to bother; to press sb, usu. to do sth; it's a tough job; sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor) | |
| 两句 兩句 | (say) a few words | |
| 史 史 | history, chronicle, annals | |
| 成日 成日 | all day long; the whole day; the whole time | |
| 生出 生出 | to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce | |
| 义 義 | right conduct, righteousness | |
| 联 聯 | connect, join; associate, ally | |
| 拉里 拉里 | lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword) | |
| 论 論 | debate; discuss; discourse | |
| 每日 每日 | daily; (soup etc) of the day | |
| 人像 人像 | likeness of a person (sketch, photo, sculpture etc) | |
| 背地里 背地裡 | behind sb's back; secretly | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 一套 一套 | suit; a set; a collection; of the same kind; the same old stuff; set pattern of behavior | |
| 成了 成了 | to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! | |
| 点灯 點燈 | to light a lamp | |
| 雪花 雪花 | snowflake | |
| 助 助 | help, aid, assist | |
| 助兴 助興 | to add to the fun; to liven things up | |
| 五更 五更 | fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) | |
| 生人 生人 | stranger; living person; to give birth; to be born (in a certain time or place) | |
| 谁知 誰知 | who would have thought; unexpectedly | |
| 见得 見得 | to seem; to appear; (in a negative or interrogative sentence) to be sure | |
| 嘴里 嘴裡 | mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words | |
| 几千 幾千 | several thousand | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 满嘴 滿嘴 | a full mouth of (sth physical); to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) | |
| 头一 頭一 | the first | |
| 生肉 生肉 | raw meat | |
| 了不得 了不得 | terrific; terrible; (after) very | |
| 例 例 | precedent, example; regulation | |
| 闻见 聞見 | to smell; to hear; knowledge; information | |
| 一只 一隻 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply | |
| 大哭 大哭 | to cry loudly | |
| 言 言 | words, speech; speak, say | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 起头 起頭 | to start; at first; beginning | |
| 用完 用完 | used up; finished | |
| 一气 一氣 | at one go; at a stretch; for a period of time; forming a gang |