Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Plucky Qingwen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in Bed
S1E20 · 勇晴雯病补雀金裘
Vocabulary
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| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 使 使 | to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger | |
| 如何 如何 | how; what way; what | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 内 內 | inside; inner; internal; within; interior | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 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}) | |
| 近在眼前 近在眼前 | right under one's nose; right in front of one's eyes; close at hand; imminent | Xiehouyu |
| 说不得 說不得 | to be unmentionable; be unspeakable; must; cannot but | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 黑山 黑山 | Montenegro (country); Heishan county in Jinzhou, Liaoning | Proper Noun |
| 快点儿 快點兒 | erhua variant of 快点; to do smh more quickly; Hurry up! | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 物 物 | thing, substance, creature | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 成了 成了 | to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! | |
| 打嘴 打嘴 | to slap sb's face; to slap one's own face; fig. to fail to live up to a boast | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 谁知 誰知 | who would have thought; unexpectedly | |
| 拉里 拉里 | lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword) | |
| 白雪 白雪 | snow | |
| 上夜 上夜 | to be on night duty | |
| 由着 由著 | let (one) have his way; as (one) pleases; at (one's) will | |
| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 弄到 弄到 | to get hold of; to obtain; to secure; to come by | |
| 茶房 茶房 | waiter; steward; porter; teahouse | |
| 日头 日頭 | sun (dialect); daytime; date | |
| 养病 養病 | to recuperate; to convalesce; to take care of one's health after illness | |
| 了不得 了不得 | terrific; terrible; (after) very | |
| 天边 天邊 | horizon; ends of the earth; remotest places | |
| 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) | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 四更 四更 | fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old) | |
| 更次 更次 | one watch (i.e. two-hour period during night) | |
| 头里 頭里 | in front; in advance of the field | |
| 往前 往前 | (in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future | |
| 叫喊 叫喊 | exclamation; outcry; shout; yell | |
| 为的是 為的是 | for the sake of; for the purpose of | |
| 论 論 | debate; discuss; discourse |