Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Lady Xing Feels Wronged and Puts Xifeng in Wrong
S1E27 · 嫌隙人有心生嫌隙
Vocabulary
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| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 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 | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 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}) | |
| 能说会道 能說會道 | can talk really well (idiom); the gift of the gab | Idiom |
| 花红柳绿 花紅柳綠 | red flowers and green willow; all the colors of spring | Idiom |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 下流 下流 | lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene | Xiehouyu |
| 带子 帶子 | belt; band; ribbon; strap; girdle; (coll.) audio or video tape; Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri); comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata) | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 邓通 鄧通 | Deng Tong (2nd c. BC), one of the wealthiest Former Han Dynasty officials | Proper Noun |
| 论 論 | debate; discuss; discourse | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 司 司 | take charge of, control, manage; officer | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 生事 生事 | to make trouble | |
| 只怕 只怕 | I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe; very likely | |
| 养病 養病 | to recuperate; to convalesce; to take care of one's health after illness | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 不该 不該 | should not; to owe nothing | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 周全 周全 | comprehensive; thorough; to bring one's help; to assist | |
| 上夜 上夜 | to be on night duty | |
| 生出 生出 | to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce | |
| 脸面 臉面 | face | |
| 焉知 焉知 | (literary) how is one to know? | |
| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 拉里 拉里 | lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword) | |
| 天黑 天黑 | to get dark; dusk | |
| 由着 由著 | let (one) have his way; as (one) pleases; at (one's) will | |
| 没好气 沒好氣 | to be in a bad mood | |
| 没脸 沒臉 | ashamed; embarrassed; not having the face (to meet people); not daring (out of shame) | |
| 吃药 吃藥 | to take medicine | |
| 几千 幾千 | several thousand | |
| 交还 交還 | to return sth; to hand back | |
| 十成 十成 | completely | |
| 当头 當頭 | coming right into one's face; imminent; to put first | |
| 了不得 了不得 | terrific; terrible; (after) very | |
| 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) | |
| 装病 裝病 | to feign illness; to malinger | |
| 满身 滿身 | covered all over | |
| 上房 上房 | central building (in a traditional house); primary wife |