Dream in Red Mansions
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S1E34 · 强英雄凤姐知命
Vocabulary
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| 讨 討 | to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 坑 坑 | pit; depression; hollow; tunnel; hole in the ground; (archaic) to bury alive; to hoodwink; to cheat (sb) | |
| 免 免 | to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 依 依 | to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of | |
| 独 獨 | alone; independent; single; sole; only | |
| 寻 尋 | to search; to look for; to seek | |
| 善 善 | good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect | |
| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 剂 劑 | dose (medicine) | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 且 且 | and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...) | |
| 唯 唯 | only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义 or 论, e.g. 唯理论, rationalism) | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 人命关天 人命關天 | human life is beyond value (idiom) | Idiom |
| 病病歪歪 病病歪歪 | sick and weak; feeble and listless | Idiom |
| 得陇望蜀 得隴望蜀 | lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized; fig. endless greed; insatiable desire | Idiom |
| 陈谷子烂芝麻 陳谷子爛芝麻 | lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip | Idiom |
| 咬牙切齿 咬牙切齒 | (idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage | Idiom |
| 贱货 賤貨 | bitch; slut | Xiehouyu |
| 姨奶奶 姨奶奶 | father's mother's sister (coll.); great aunt | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 算命 算命 | fortune-telling; to tell fortune | |
| 奉旨 奉旨 | by imperial decree | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 服侍 服侍 | to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also | |
| 老伯 老伯 | uncle (polite form of address for older male) | |
| 帘幕 簾幕 | hanging screen; curtain over shop door (for privacy and serving as advertisement) | |
| 流苏 流蘇 | tassels | |
| 津津 津津 | enthusiastic; ardent; (with) great relish | |
| 恍若 恍若 | as if; as though; rather like | |
| 今宵 今宵 | tonight (literary) | |
| 同喜 同喜 | Thank you for your congratulations!; The same to you! (returning a compliment) | |
| 蹊跷 蹊蹺 | odd; queer; strange; fishy | |
| 攻心 攻心 | to mount a psychological attack; to try to demoralize; to try to win over; to try to persuade; (TCM) to fall into a coma or stupor due to an excess of emotion | |
| 扣住 扣住 | to detain; to hold back by force; to buckle; to hook | |
| 娶亲 娶親 | to take a wife | |
| 凑份子 湊份子 | to pool resources (for a gift, project etc) | |
| 发丧 發喪 | to hold a funeral |