Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Jung Mansion Had the Imperial Consort's Visitation on the Lantern Festival
S1E8 · 荣国府归省庆元宵
Vocabulary
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| 娘儿们 娘兒們 | (dialect) woman; wife | |
| 人丁 人丁 | number of people in a family; population; (old) adult males; male servants | |
| 丫鬟 丫鬟 | servant girl; maid | |
| 业业兢兢 業業兢兢 | 业: profession, business; GB radical 111 · 业: profession, business; GB radical 111 · 兢: fearful, cautious, wary · 兢: fearful, cautious, wary | |
| 不负 不負 | to live up to | |
| 圣上 聖上 | Your Majesty | |
| 亭台 亭臺 | pavilion | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 颇多 頗多 | (quite) a lot; many | |
| 典故 典故 | classical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth | |
| 婵娟 嬋娟 | (literary) beautiful woman; (literary) lovely; graceful; (literary) the moon | |
| 芭蕉 芭蕉 | banana plant | |
| 一字师 一字師 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 字: letter, character, word · 师: teacher, master, specialist | |
| 黄袍 黃袍 | yellow robe | |
| 蘅芜 蘅蕪 | Asarum blumei (ginger plant) | |
| 銮驾 鑾駕 | imperial chariot | |
| 好容易 好容易 | (idiomatic usage) with great difficulty; to have a hard time (convincing sb, relinquishing sth etc); (literal usage) so easy | |
| 只管 只管 | solely engrossed in one thing; just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest); simply; by all means; please feel free; do not hesitate (to ask for sth) | |
| 祖母 祖母 | father's mother; paternal grandmother | |
| 诸位 諸位 | (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 偏 偏 | to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 另 另 | other; another; separate; separately | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 杂种 雜種 | hybrid; mixed breed; bastard; son of a bitch | Xiehouyu |
| 姨妈 姨媽 | (coll.) mother's sister; maternal aunt | Colloquialism |
| 老爷 老爺 | master, sir | |
| 蓼 蓼 | smartweed, polygonum | |
| 溆 漵 | river in Hunan | |
| 启 啟 | open; begin, commence; explain | |
| 禀 稟 | report to, petition | |
| 臣 臣 | minister, statesman, official | |
| 怡 怡 | harmony; pleasure, joy; be glad | |
| 汀 汀 | sandbar, beach, bank, shore | |
| 擅 擅 | monopolize; claim; arbitrarily; to dare | |
| 杏 杏 | apricot; almond | |
| 帘 簾 | flag-sign of a tavern | |
| 匾 匾 | flat, round split-bamboo contain | |
| 薛 薛 | kind of marsh grass; feudal state | |
| 轩 軒 | carriage; high; wide; balcony | |
| 蘅 蘅 | a fragrant plant the root is medicinal | |
| 芷 芷 | angelica, type of iris |