Masters in Forbidden City
Episode review
Restoring Wooden Wares, Lacquerware, Inlay and Imperial Embroidery
S1E2 · 木器、漆器、百宝镶嵌、宫廷织绣的修复
Vocabulary
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| 不理 不理 | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore | Xiehouyu |
| 与众不同 與眾不同 | to stand out from the masses (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 俗语 俗語 | common saying; proverb; colloquial speech | Colloquialism |
| 蹭 蹭 | to rub against; to walk slowly; (coll.) to freeload | Colloquialism |
| 损 損 | to decrease; to lose; to damage; to harm; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | Colloquialism |
| 逗 逗 | to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn; brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 读) | Colloquialism |
| 受过 受過 | to take the blame (for sb else) | |
| 学艺 學藝 | to learn a skill or art | |
| 工序 工序 | working procedure; process | |
| 接班 接班 | to take over (from those working the previous shift); to take over (in a leadership role etc); to succeed sb | |
| 陡峭 陡峭 | precipitous | |
| 盛产 盛產 | to produce in abundance; to be rich in | |
| 耗时 耗時 | time-consuming; to take a period of (x amount of time) | |
| 枣 棗 | (bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba) | |
| 浩劫 浩劫 | calamity; catastrophe; apocalypse | |
| 风貌 風貌 | style; manner; ethos | |
| 由来 由來 | origin | |
| 相传 相傳 | to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend | |
| 不平 不平 | uneven; injustice; unfairness; wrong; grievance; indignant; dissatisfied | |
| 常态 常態 | normal state | |
| 打磨 打磨 | to polish; to burnish; to shine | |
| 残缺 殘缺 | badly damaged; shattered | |
| 脱节 脫節 | to come apart | |
| 略微 略微 | a little bit; slightly | |
| 剔除 剔除 | to reject; to discard; to get rid of | |
| 背诵 背誦 | to recite; to repeat from memory | |
| 审美 審美 | esthetics; appreciating the arts; taste | |
| 镶嵌 鑲嵌 | to inlay; to embed; to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring); tiling; tesselation | |
| 陈列 陳列 | to display; to exhibit | |
| 厚度 厚度 | thickness | |
| 早年 早年 | many years ago; in the past; in one's early years | |
| 菩萨 菩薩 | Bodhisattva (Buddhism) | |
| 成型 成型 | to become shaped; to become formed | |
| 上流 上流 | upper class | |
| 下山 下山 | to go down a hill; (of the sun or moon) to set | |
| 贝壳 貝殼 | shell; conch; cowry; mother of pearl; hard outer skin; also pr. [bèi qiào] | |
| 招收 招收 | to hire; to recruit | |
| 用人 用人 | servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff | |
| 湿度 濕度 | humidity level | |
| 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 | |
| 精细 精細 | fine; meticulous; careful | |
| 得当 得當 | appropriate; suitable | |
| 凑合 湊合 | to bring together; to make do in a bad situation; to just get by; to improvise; passable; not too bad | |
| 图形 圖形 | picture; figure; diagram; graph; depiction; graphical | |
| 宫廷 宮廷 | court (of king or emperor) | |
| 黏 黏 | sticky; glutinous; (Tw) to adhere; to stick on; to glue | |
| 尺度 尺度 | scale; yardstick | |
| 横向 橫向 | horizontal; orthogonal; perpendicular; lateral; crosswise | |
| 蘸 蘸 | to dip in (ink, sauce etc) | |
| 裸露 裸露 | naked; bare; uncovered; exposed |