Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai's First Meeting at the Hall of Glorious Pageant
S1E2 · 宝黛钗初会荣庆堂
Vocabulary
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| 花灯 花燈 | colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节) | |
| 满口 滿口 | a full mouth of (sth tangible); to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc); (to agree etc) unreservedly | |
| 道人 道人 | Taoist devotee (honorific) | |
| 杀人 殺人 | homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) | |
| 全家 全家 | whole family | |
| 西方 西方 | the West; the Occident; Western countries | |
| 太太 太太 | married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife | |
| 姓 姓 | family name; surname; to be surnamed | |
| 以外 以外 | apart from; other than; except for; external; outside of; on the other side of; beyond | |
| 道理 道理 | reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification | |
| 主人 主人 | master; host; owner | |
| 大人 大人 | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 船 舩 | boat; vessel; ship | |
| 听说 聽說 | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking | |
| 街 街 | street | |
| 取 取 | to take; to get; to choose; to fetch | |
| 方向 方向 | direction; orientation | |
| 通 通 | to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc | |
| 夜 亱 | night | |
| 省 省 | to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government) | |
| 假 假 | used in 掰 | |
| 意思 意思 | idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc | |
| 怕 怕 | to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps | |
| 原来 原來 | original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out | |
| 倒 倒 | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit | |
| 银行 銀行 | bank | |
| 眼 眼 | eye; small hole; crux (of a matter); classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) | |
| 套 套 | to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ) | |
| 算 算 | to regard as; to figure; to calculate; to compute | |
| 靠 靠 | to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old) | |
| 份 份 | classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分 | |
| 面 面 | face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc | |
| 卖 賣 | to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt | |
| 以为 以為 | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | |
| 能够 能夠 | to be capable of; to be able to; can | |
| 道 道 | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division) | |
| 其中 其中 | among; in; included among these | |
| 虽然 雖然 | although; even though (often used correlatively with 是 or 是 etc) | |
| 接 接 | to receive; to answer (the phone); to meet or welcome sb; to connect; to catch; to join; to extend; to take one's turn on duty; to take over for sb | |
| 全 全 | all; whole; entire; every; complete | |
| 发 發 | to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds) | |
| 为什么 為什麼 | why?; for what reason? | |
| 件 件 | item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc | |
| 事情 事情 | affair; matter; thing; business | |
| 长 長 | length; long; forever; always; constantly | |
| 名 名 | name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people | |
| 不要 不要 | don't!; must not | |
| 不过 不過 | only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival) | |
| 这么 這麼 | so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this |