Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Xifeng in Jealousy Makes a Scene in the Ning Mansion
S1E26 · 酸凤姐大闹宁国府
Vocabulary
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| 平安无事 平安無事 | safe and sound (idiom) | Idiom |
| 花言巧语 花言巧語 | graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; cheating wheedling; dishonest rhetoric | Idiom |
| 悔过自新 悔過自新 | to repent and start afresh (idiom); to turn over a new leaf | Idiom |
| 王八 王八 | softshell turtle; cuckold; (old) male owner of a brothel | Xiehouyu |
| 热闹 熱鬧 | bustling with noise and excitement; lively | Xiehouyu |
| 不济 不濟 | (coll.) no good; of no use | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 张华 張華 | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician; Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank; other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | Proper Noun |
| 百色 百色 | Baise, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 大观园 大觀園 | Prospect Garden; Grand View Garden, a garden in Dream of the Red Chamber | Proper Noun |
| 宁国 寧國 | Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 弯弯 彎彎 | Wan Wan (1981-), Taiwanese blogger and cartoonist | Proper Noun |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 谢 謝 | thank | |
| 圆房 圓房 | (of a child bride) to consummate marriage | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 若是 若是 | if | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 尤 尤 | especially, particularly | |
| 治死 治死 | to put to death | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 安生 安生 | peaceful; restful; quiet; still | |
| 烧香 燒香 | to burn incense | |
| 仔 仔 | small thing, child; young animal | |
| 王八蛋 王八蛋 | bastard; son of a bitch | |
| 弃 棄 | reject, abandon, discard | |
| 寒微 寒微 | of humble origin | |
| 恐 恐 | fear; fearful, apprehensive | |
| 何等 何等 | what kind?; how, what; somewhat | |
| 有无 有無 | to have or have not; surplus and shortfall; tangible and intangible; corporeal and incorporeal | |
| 况 況 | condition, situation; furthermore | |
| 私 私 | private, personal; secret | |
| 幸 倖 | luck(ily), favor, fortunately | |
| 懊悔 懊悔 | to feel remorse; to repent; to regret | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 安身 安身 | to make one's home; to take shelter | |
| 粗笨 粗笨 | awkward; clumsy; unwieldy; heavy-handed | |
| 伯 伯 | variant of | |
| 烦琐 煩瑣 | tedious; convoluted; fiddly; pedantic | |
| 对质 對質 | to confront (in court etc); confrontation | |
| 自有 自有 | (I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc); one's own (apartment, brand etc) | |
| 查究 查究 | to follow up a study; to investigate | |
| 官场 官場 | officialdom; bureaucracy | |
| 王法 王法 | the law; the law of the land; the law of a state (in former times); criterion | |
| 败家 敗家 | to squander a family fortune | |
| 奴 奴 | slave, servant | |
| 教导 教導 | to instruct; to teach; guidance; teaching |