New Legend of Madame White Snake
Whole-title review
Season 1 — New Legend of Madame White Snake
新白娘子传奇
Vocabulary
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| 难说 難說 | hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict); cannot bring oneself to say it | |
| 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 | |
| 投奔 投奔 | to seek shelter; to seek asylum | |
| 喜事 喜事 | happy occasion; wedding | |
| 省事 省事 | to simplify matters; to save trouble | |
| 忌讳 忌諱 | taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from | |
| 宝库 寶庫 | treasure-house; treasury; treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom) | |
| 何苦 何苦 | why bother?; is it worth the trouble? | |
| 怨气 怨氣 | grievance; resentment; complaint | |
| 见义勇为 見義勇為 | to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth; acting heroically in a just cause | |
| 波折 波折 | twists and turns | |
| 孤零零 孤零零 | lone; isolated and without help; all alone; solitary | |
| 受惊 受驚 | startled | |
| 气馁 氣餒 | to be discouraged | |
| 开明 開明 | enlightened; open-minded; enlightenment | |
| 遭殃 遭殃 | to suffer a calamity | |
| 恭敬 恭敬 | deferential; respectful | |
| 打搅 打攪 | to disturb; to trouble; to bother | |
| 公职 公職 | civil service; public office; government job | |
| 闲话 閒話 | casual conversation; chat; gossip; to talk about (whatever comes to mind) | |
| 敬酒 敬酒 | to toast; to propose a toast | |
| 插嘴 插嘴 | to interrupt (sb talking); to butt in; to cut into a conversation | |
| 和气 和氣 | friendly; polite; amiable | |
| 跟上 跟上 | to catch up with; to keep pace with | |
| 一味 一味 | blindly; invariably | |
| 恩惠 恩惠 | favor; grace | |
| 逞强 逞強 | to show off; to try to be brave | |
| 出息 出息 | to yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism) | |
| 常态 常態 | normal state | |
| 木匠 木匠 | carpenter | |
| 根基 根基 | foundation | |
| 凶恶 兇惡 | fierce; ferocious; fiendish; frightening | |
| 乡亲 鄉親 | fellow countryman (from the same village); local people; villager; the folks back home | |
| 岔 岔 | fork in road; bifurcation; branch in road, river, mountain range etc; to branch off; to turn off; to diverge; to stray (from the path); to change the subject; to interrupt; to stagger (times) | |
| 指教 指教 | to give advice or comments | |
| 灵巧 靈巧 | deft; nimble; ingenious | |
| 破例 破例 | to make an exception | |
| 特产 特產 | special local product; (regional) specialty | |
| 诬陷 誣陷 | to entrap; to frame; to plant false evidence against sb | |
| 存心 存心 | deliberately | |
| 灰心 灰心 | to lose heart; to be discouraged | |
| 包庇 包庇 | to shield; to harbor; to cover up | |
| 流转 流轉 | to be on the move; to roam or wander; to circulate (of goods or capital) | |
| 名贵 名貴 | famous and valuable; rare; precious | |
| 僧人 僧人 | monk | |
| 屯 屯 | to station (soldiers); to store up; village | |
| 推算 推算 | to calculate; to reckon; to extrapolate (in calculation) | |
| 暗地里 暗地裡 | secretly; inwardly; on the sly | |
| 情理 情理 | reason; sense |