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 liú lǎolao yī jìn róng guó fǔ

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Vocabulary

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派 派 pài clique; school; group; faction; to dispatch; to send; to assign; to appoint; pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926; (loanword) pie HSK 3
精神 精神 jīng shén spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist HSK 3
除了 除了 chú le besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for) HSK 3
个人 個人 gè rén individual; personal; oneself HSK 3
下来 下來 xià lai to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) HSK 3
马 馬 mǎ horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess HSK 3
连 連 lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
使 使 shǐ to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger HSK 3
内 內 nèi inside; inner; internal; within; interior HSK 3
只是 只是 zhǐ shì merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however HSK 3
死 死 sǐ to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
时 時 shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
就是 就是 jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
被 被 bèi 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) HSK 3
把 把 bǎ 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}) HSK 3
头一回 頭一回 tóu yī huí the first time; for the first time Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
小雪 小雪 Xiǎo xuě Xiaoxue or Lesser Snow, 20th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd November-6th December Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
见过 見過 jiànguò seen HSK 2
知道了 知道了 zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
刘 劉 Liú surname; kill, destroy ∼HSK 2
府 府 fǔ prefecture; prefect; government ∼HSK 2
林 林 Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
房 房 Fáng surname Fang ∼HSK 2
好生 好生 hǎo shēng (dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly ∼HSK 2
吃药 吃藥 chī yào to take medicine ∼HSK 2
海上 海上 hǎi shàng maritime ∼HSK 2
住嘴 住嘴 zhù zuǐ to hold one's tongue; Shut up! ∼HSK 2
拉里 拉里 lā lǐ lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword) ∼HSK 2
墙角 牆角 qiáng jiǎo corner (junction of two walls) ∼HSK 2
街上 街上 jiē shang on the street; in town ∼HSK 2
借重 借重 jiè zhòng to rely on sb for support ∼HSK 2
地租 地租 dì zū land rent; land tax ∼HSK 2
小名 小名 xiǎo míng pet name for a child; childhood name ∼HSK 2
才不 才不 cái bù by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! ∼HSK 2
物 物 wù thing, substance, creature ∼HSK 2
家道 家道 jiā dào family financial circumstances ∼HSK 2
打嘴 打嘴 dǎ zuǐ to slap sb's face; to slap one's own face; fig. to fail to live up to a boast ∼HSK 2
不该 不該 bù gāi should not; to owe nothing ∼HSK 2
弄坏 弄壞 nòng huài to ruin; to spoil; to break ∼HSK 2
不怕 不怕 bù pà fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
说得上 說得上 shuō de shàng can be counted or regarded as; to be able to tell or answer; to deserve mention ∼HSK 2
只怕 只怕 zhǐ pà I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe; very likely ∼HSK 2
那种 那種 nà zhǒng that kind of ∼HSK 2
名医 名醫 míng yī famous doctor ∼HSK 2
黄柏 黃柏 huáng bò variant of ∼HSK 2
可就 可就 kě jiù certainly ∼HSK 2
什么地方 什麼地方 shén me dì fang somewhere; someplace; where ∼HSK 2
什么时候 什麼時候 shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
改天 改天 gǎi tiān another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check ∼HSK 2
老脸 老臉 lǎo liǎn self-respect of old person; face; thick-skinned (i.e. impervious to criticism); brazen ∼HSK 2