Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Granny Liu Pays Her First Visit to the Jung Mansion
S1E3 · 刘姥姥一进荣国府
Vocabulary
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| 祖父 祖父 | father's father; paternal grandfather | |
| 打发 打發 | to dispatch sb to do sth; to make sb leave; to pass (the time); (old) to make arrangements; (old) to bestow (alms etc) | |
| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 发病 發病 | (of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill; onset (of a medical condition) | |
| 明日 明日 | tomorrow | |
| 好不容易 好不容易 | with great difficulty; very difficult | |
| 师父 師父 | used for 师傅 (in Taiwan); master; qualified worker | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 官司 官司 | lawsuit | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 从不 從不 | never | |
| 虽 雖 | although; even though | |
| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 罢了 罷了 | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) | |
| 佛 佛 | Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 远远 遠遠 | distant; by far | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 偏 偏 | to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 料 料 | material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 侧 側 | the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 原 原 | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 荣华富贵 榮華富貴 | glory, splendor, wealth and rank (idiom); high position and great wealth | Idiom |
| 迟了 遲了 | late | Xiehouyu |
| 好儿 好兒 | good fellow; good chap (colloquial term of address) | Colloquialism |
| 姑子 姑子 | husband's sister; (coll.) Buddhist nun | Colloquialism |
| 蓉 蓉 | hibiscus; Chengdu, Sichuan | |
| 姑奶奶 姑奶奶 | paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister); (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter; (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here; (coll | |
| 凤 鳳 | male phoenix; symbol of joy |