Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Grieving Over Tanchun's Departure to Marry Far from Home
S1E32 · 伤离别探春远嫁
Vocabulary
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| 慌慌张张 慌慌張張 | 慌: nervous, panicky, frantic · 慌: nervous, panicky, frantic · 张: stretch, extend, expand; sheet · 张: stretch, extend, expand; sheet | Idiom |
| 瓦解冰消 瓦解冰消 | 瓦: tile; earthenware pottery; girl · 解: loosen, unfasten, untie; explain · 冰: ice; ice-cold · 消: vanish, die out; melt away | Idiom |
| 闺女 閨女 | maiden; unmarried woman; (coll.) daughter | Colloquialism |
| 耗 耗 | to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally | Colloquialism |
| 娘 娘 | mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate | Colloquialism |
| 清明 清明 | Qingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 5th-19th April; Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April) | |
| 何苦 何苦 | why bother?; is it worth the trouble? | |
| 一味 一味 | blindly; invariably | |
| 倚 倚 | to lean on; to rely upon | |
| 用功 用功 | diligent; industrious (in one's studies); to study hard; to make great effort | |
| 花卉 花卉 | flowers and plants | |
| 甘心 甘心 | to be willing to; to resign oneself to | |
| 执意 執意 | to be determined to; to insist on | |
| 抠 摳 | to dig out; to pick out (with one's fingers); to carve; to cut; to study meticulously; to lift one's clothes; stingy; miserly | |
| 寻觅 尋覓 | to look for | |
| 留心 留心 | to be careful; to pay attention to | |
| 花瓣 花瓣 | petal | |
| 做主 做主 | see 主 | |
| 日后 日後 | sometime; someday (in the future) | |
| 风筝 風箏 | kite | |
| 君子 君子 | nobleman; person of noble character | |
| 不算 不算 | to not calculate; to not count; to not be considered (as); to have no weight | |
| 拣 揀 | to choose; to pick; to sort out; to pick up | |
| 埋怨 埋怨 | to complain; to grumble (about); to reproach; to blame | |
| 梳 梳 | a comb; to comb | |
| 上任 上任 | to take office; previous (incumbent); predecessor | |
| 好说 好說 | easy to deal with; not a problem; (polite answer) you flatter me | |
| 斩 斬 | to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop | |
| 栽 栽 | to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb; to stumble; to fall down | |
| 纱 紗 | cotton yarn; muslin | |
| 俊 㑺 | smart; eminent; handsome; talented | |
| 拧 擰 | to pinch; wring | |
| 碰上 碰上 | to run into; to come upon; to meet | |
| 保管 保管 | to hold in safekeeping; to have in one's care; to guarantee; certainly; surely; custodian; curator | |
| 墨 墨 | ink stick; China ink; corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead | |
| 盛 盛 | to hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensil | |
| 别说 別說 | to say nothing of; not to mention; let alone | |
| 充 充 | sufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as; to act falsely as; to pose as | |
| 哄 哄 | roar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd) | |
| 一早 一早 | early in the morning; at dawn | |
| 糊涂 糊塗 | muddled; silly; confused | |
| 丫头 丫頭 | girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) | |
| 征 征 | journey; trip; expedition; to go on long campaign; to attack | |
| 虚 虛 | emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain | |
| 灌 灌 | to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music) | |
| 功 功 | meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics) | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 烫 燙 | to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot | |
| 祈祷 祈禱 | to pray; to say one's prayers; prayer | |
| 玫瑰 玫瑰 | rugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa); rose flower |