Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
The Profligate Secretly Takes Second Sister Yu as a Concubine
S1E25 · 贾二舍偷娶尤二姨
Vocabulary
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| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 作为 作為 | one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be | |
| 此 此 | this; these | |
| 选择 選擇 | to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 两面三刀 兩面三刀 | two-faced, three knives (idiom); double-cross; double dealing and back stabbing | Idiom |
| 乱套 亂套 | in a mess; upside down | Xiehouyu |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 汉朝 漢朝 | Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) | Proper Noun |
| 保山 保山 | Baoshan, prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province | Proper Noun |
| 爷 爺 | father, grandfather | |
| 叔 叔 | uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
| 亲家 親家 | parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law; relatives by marriage | |
| 亲事 親事 | marriage | |
| 贾 賈 | surname; merchant; buy, trade | |
| 大叔 大叔 | eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
| 事儿 事兒 | matter, affair | |
| 银子 銀子 | money; silver | |
| 古今 古今 | then and now; ancient and modern | |
| 婚事 婚事 | wedding; marriage | |
| 准备好了 準備好了 | to be ready | |
| 唐 唐 | Tang dynasty; Chinese | |
| 刚强 剛強 | firm; unyielding | |
| 音信 音信 | message | |
| 退婚 退婚 | to break off an engagement | |
| 管保 管保 | to guarantee; assuredly | |
| 择 擇 | select, choose, pick out | |
| 性急 性急 | impatient | |
| 包银 包銀 | contracted payment (esp. actors' salary in former times) | |
| 面容 面容 | appearance; facial features | |
| 梯己 梯己 | intimate; private saving of family members | |
| 正室 正室 | primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife | |
| 痛痛快快 痛痛快快 | immediately; without a moment's hesitation; with alacrity; firing from the hip | |
| 小叔 小叔 | husband's younger brother; brother-in-law | |
| 取乐 取樂 | to find amusement; to amuse oneself | |
| 使不得 使不得 | cannot be used; must not (do sth); unacceptable | |
| 到那个时候 到那個時候 | until this moment | |
| 容 容 | looks, appearance; figure, form | |
| 火儿 火兒 | fire; fury; angry | |
| 人心 人心 | popular feeling; the will of the people | |
| 终身大事 終身大事 | major turning point of lifelong import (esp. marriage) | |
| 石 石 | stone, rock, mineral; rad. 112 | |
| 一世 一世 | generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings) | |
| 家传 家傳 | handed down in a family; family traditions | |
| 断乎 斷乎 | certainly | |
| 不合 不合 | to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out |