Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Daiyu Feels Slight Jealous While Meeting Baoyu at Baochai's Home
S1E4 · 探宝钗黛玉半含酸
Vocabulary
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| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 方 方 | square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter | |
| 单 單 | bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number | |
| 梦 夢 | dream; (bound form) to dream | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| 赶明儿 趕明兒 | (coll.) some day; one of these days | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 城外 城外 | outside of a city | Proper Noun |
| 爷 爺 | father, grandfather | |
| 叔 叔 | uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
| 不愿 不願 | unwilling | |
| 调养 調養 | to take care of (sb's health); to nurse | |
| 得空 得空 | to have leisure time | |
| 笔力 筆力 | vigor of strokes in calligraphy or drawing; vigor of style in literary composition | |
| 记挂 記掛 | (dialect) to keep thinking about (sth); to have (sth) on one's mind | |
| 趣 趣 | interesting; to interest | |
| 香气 香氣 | fragrance; aroma; incense | |
| 不巧 不巧 | too bad; unfortunately; as luck would have it | |
| 调教 調教 | to instruct; to teach; to train; to raise (livestock) | |
| 死活 死活 | life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me | |
| 费心 費心 | to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth) | |
| 刀子 刀子 | knife | |
| 张嘴 張嘴 | to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape | |
| 受用 受用 | to enjoy; to reap the benefits (of sth) | |
| 可吃 可吃 | edible | |
| 势 勢 | power, force; tendency | |
| 连笔 連筆 | to write without lifting one's pen from the paper | |
| 调停 調停 | to reconcile; to mediate; to bring warring parties to agreement; to arbitrate | |
| 叶 葉 | to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf | |
| 食 食 | eat; meal; food; KangXi radical number 184 | |
| 爷们儿 爺們兒 | erhua variant of | |
| 众 眾 | multitude, crowd; masses, public | |
| 事儿 事兒 | matter, affair | |
| 不好受 不好受 | unpleasant; hard to take | |
| 合该 合該 | ought to; should | |
| 点儿 點兒 | a bit | |
| 人参 人參 | ginseng | |
| 暖和 暖和 | warm; nice and warm | |
| 老太太 老太太 | elderly lady (respectful); esteemed mother | |
| 大夫 大夫 | senior official (in imperial China) | |
| 巧 巧 | opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely | |
| 整天 整天 | all day long; whole day | |
| 年纪 年紀 | age | |
| 福 福 | good fortune; happiness; luck | |
| 念 唸 | to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing; to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿) |