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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| 短命 短命 | to die young; short-lived | |
| 行刑 行刑 | to carry out a (death) sentence; execution | |
| 撬开 撬開 | to pry open; to lever open | |
| 降伏 降伏 | to subdue; to vanquish; to tame | |
| 打斗 打鬥 | to fight | |
| 活神仙 活神仙 | a god living in our midst (sb who can predict the future like a prophet or who leads a life without constraints) | |
| 客商 客商 | traveling merchant | |
| 极乐世界 極樂世界 | paradise (mainly Buddhist); Elysium; (Budd.) Sukhavati | |
| 捉弄 捉弄 | to tease | |
| 不知羞耻 不知羞恥 | to have no sense of shame; brazen | |
| 捉拿 捉拿 | to arrest; to catch a criminal | |
| 赴宴 赴宴 | to attend a banquet | |
| 锡杖 錫杖 | monk's staff (Buddhism) | |
| 求经 求經 | to seek scriptures; to journey for sacred Buddhist texts | |
| 看不清 看不清 | not able to see clearly | |
| 一夜之间 一夜之間 | (lit. and fig.) overnight | |
| 杀身之祸 殺身之禍 | (idiom) getting killed | |
| 意下如何 意下如何 | how about it?; what do you think? | |
| 拿主意 拿主意 | to make a decision; to make up one's mind | |
| 睁眼 睜眼 | to open one's eyes | |
| 良田 良田 | good agricultural land; fertile land | |
| 娇滴滴 嬌滴滴 | sweet; cute; delicately pretty | |
| 煮饭 煮飯 | to cook | |
| 乐善好施 樂善好施 | kind and charitable | |
| 哄骗 哄騙 | to deceive; to cheat | |
| 百余 百餘 | a hundred or more | |
| 善罢甘休 善罷甘休 | (idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative) | |
| 还魂 還魂 | to return from the grave; (old) to recycle (waste products) | |
| 瞒不过 瞞不過 | cannot conceal (a matter) from (sb) | |
| 好惹 好惹 | accommodating; easy to push around | |
| 善财 善財 | to cherish wealth | |
| 佛像 佛像 | Buddhist image; statue of Buddha or Bodhisattva | |
| 有失远迎 有失遠迎 | (polite) excuse me for not going out to meet you | |
| 钦差 欽差 | imperial envoy | |
| 妙计 妙計 | excellent plan; brilliant scheme | |
| 飘飘 飄飄 | to float about; to flutter (in the breeze); (dialect) gay guy; (Tw) ghost | |
| 良方 良方 | good medicine; effective prescription; fig. good plan; effective strategy | |
| 山野 山野 | wild mountain | |
| 望闻问切 望聞問切 | the four methods of TCM diagnosis: looking, listening/smelling, asking, and feeling the pulse (idiom) | |
| 千里之外 千里之外 | thousand miles distant | |
| 凭据 憑據 | evidence | |
| 杂粮 雜糧 | grain crops other than rice and wheat | |
| 捂住 捂住 | to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc) | |
| 行侠仗义 行俠仗義 | to be chivalrous | |
| 未婚妻 未婚妻 | fiancée | |
| 叔公 叔公 | great uncle; grandfather's younger brother; husband's father's younger brother | |
| 德高望重 德高望重 | (idiom) a person of virtue and prestige; a person of good moral standing and reputation | |
| 请勿 請勿 | please don't | |
| 剑客 劍客 | swordsman | |
| 自古以来 自古以來 | since ancient times |