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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| 加官进禄 加官進祿 | promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom) | Idiom |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 西洋 西洋 | the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) | Proper Noun |
| 宁国 寧國 | Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 金安 金安 | Jin'an, a district of Lu'an City, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 百色 百色 | Baise, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region | Proper Noun |
| 老君 老君 | Laojun (Daoist deity Lao Tzu) | Proper Noun |
| 庄子 莊子 | Zhuangzi (369-286 BC), Daoist author | Proper Noun |
| 宝玉 寶玉 | precious jade; treasures | |
| 叩首 叩首 | to kowtow; also written | |
| 庄 莊 | village, hamlet; villa, manor | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 宋 宋 | Song dynasty; surname | |
| 乌 烏 | crow, rook, raven; black, dark | |
| 公子 公子 | son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific) | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 纹 紋 | line, streak, stripe; wrinkle | |
| 仔 仔 | small thing, child; young animal | |
| 梅 梅 | plums; prunes; surname | |
| 模 模 | model, standard, pattern; copy | |
| 浅近 淺近 | simple | |
| 若是 若是 | if | |
| 雅 雅 | elegant, graceful, refined | |
| 各色 各色 | all kinds; of every description | |
| 窗 牎 | window | |
| 根底 根底 | foundation; grounding; background; what lies at the bottom of sth; root; cause | |
| 幸而 幸而 | by good fortune; luckily | |
| 草根 草根 | grass roots (lit. and fig.) | |
| 别处 別處 | elsewhere | |
| 眼皮子浅 眼皮子淺 | short-sighted | |
| 好些 好些 | a good deal of; quite a lot | |
| 膏 膏 | grease, fat; paste, ointment | |
| 弗 弗 | not, negative | |
| 作死 作死 | to court disaster; also pr. [zuo1si3] | |
| 自有 自有 | (I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc); one's own (apartment, brand etc) | |
| 教导 教導 | to instruct; to teach; guidance; teaching | |
| 无干 無干 | to have nothing to do with | |
| 方才 方才 | just now; then | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 禁 禁 | restrict, prohibit, forbid | |
| 侍卫 侍衛 | Imperial bodyguard | |
| 闪失 閃失 | mishap; accident; accidental loss | |
| 彩 彩 | hue, color; variegated colors | |
| 原人 原人 | prehistoric man; primitive man | |
| 谅 諒 | excuse, forgive; guess, presume | |
| 叩拜 叩拜 | to bow in salute; to kowtow |