Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Spiritual Jade was Stolen During a Bustling Feast
S1E31 · 家宅乱误窃通灵
Vocabulary
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| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 应 應 | to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shall | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 定 定 | to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to order | |
| 自 自 | self; oneself; from; since; naturally; surely | |
| 处 處 | place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 轻巧 輕巧 | dexterous; deft; easy; light and easy to use; nimble; agile; lithe; graceful | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 太爷 太爺 | (respectful for) one's grandfather; sb's father; older people; the head of the house (used by servants); a district magistrate | Proper Noun |
| 工部 工部 | Ministry of Works (in imperial China) | Proper Noun |
| 吏部 吏部 | Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China) | Proper Noun |
| 阳春 陽春 | Yangchun, county-level city in Yangjiang, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 爷 爺 | father, grandfather | |
| 事儿 事兒 | matter, affair | |
| 恩 㤙 | kindness, mercy, charity | |
| 银子 銀子 | money; silver | |
| 贾 賈 | surname; merchant; buy, trade | |
| 乱说 亂說 | to talk drivel; to make irresponsible remarks | |
| 叶 葉 | to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf | |
| 知音 知音 | intimate friend; soul mate | |
| 难保 難保 | hard to say; can't guarantee; difficult to protect; difficult to preserve | |
| 使坏 使壞 | to play dirty tricks; to be up to mischief | |
| 人心 人心 | popular feeling; the will of the people | |
| 收心 收心 | to concentrate on the task; to curb one's evil instincts | |
| 活着 活著 | alive | |
| 亲事 親事 | marriage | |
| 不相干 不相干 | to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with | |
| 连手 連手 | concerted action; to collude (in dishonesty) | |
| 罪名 罪名 | charge; accusation; stigma; bad name; stained reputation | |
| 容 容 | looks, appearance; figure, form | |
| 不实 不實 | untruthful; untrue | |
| 书架 書架 | bookshelf | |
| 认得 認得 | to recognize; to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it; to know | |
| 暖和 暖和 | warm; nice and warm | |
| 老太太 老太太 | elderly lady (respectful); esteemed mother | |
| 气候 氣候 | (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs) | |
| 底下 底下 | the location below sth; afterwards | |
| 秋 秋 | autumn; fall; harvest time | |
| 本事 本事 | source material; original story | |
| 不安 不安 | unpeaceful; unstable; uneasy; disturbed; restless; worried | |
| 屋子 屋子 | house; room | |
| 春 旾 | spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life | |
| 带领 帶領 | to guide; to lead | |
| 不论 不論 | whatever; no matter what (who, how etc); regardless of; not to discuss | |
| 争 爭 | to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary) |