New Legend of Madame White Snake
Episode review
Xu Xian Learns His Wife's True Origin
S1E21 · 许仙知娘子身世
Vocabulary
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| 言下之意 言下之意 | implication | |
| 遁形 遁形 | to vanish; to hide; to cover one's traces | |
| 贫嘴 貧嘴 | talkative; garrulous; loquacious; flippant; jocular | |
| 依我看 依我看 | in my opinion | |
| 爹爹 爹爹 | daddy; granddad | |
| 火刑 火刑 | execution by fire; burning at the stake | |
| 不甘心 不甘心 | not reconciled to; not resigned to | |
| 邀功 邀功 | to take the credit for sb's achievement | |
| 如期 如期 | as scheduled; on time; punctual | |
| 刀剑 刀劍 | sword | |
| 赴宴 赴宴 | to attend a banquet | |
| 置疑 置疑 | to doubt | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 扯淡 扯淡 | to talk nonsense | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 唯恐 唯恐 | for fear that; lest; also written 惟恐 | |
| 罪孽 罪孽 | sin; crime; wrongdoing | |
| 天谴 天譴 | the wrath of Heaven; imperial displeasure | |
| 累及 累及 | to involve; to affect | |
| 唏嘘 唏噓 | (onom.) to sigh; to sob | |
| 茹素 茹素 | to eat a vegetarian diet | |
| 做功 做功 | (physics) to do work; non-vocal acting (in traditional Chinese opera) | |
| 姻缘 姻緣 | a marriage predestined by fate | |
| 深陷 深陷 | to be deeply in (trouble, debt etc); deep set (eyes) | |
| 弄清 弄清 | to clarify; to fully understand | |
| 横生 橫生 | to grow without restraint; overflowing with; to happen unexpectedly | |
| 事端 事端 | disturbance; incident | |
| 活命 活命 | life; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living | |
| 招来 招來 | to attract; to incur | |
| 客堂 客堂 | room to meet guests; parlor | |
| 常年 常年 | all year round; for years on end; average year | |
| 甭 甭 | (contraction of 用) need not; please don't | |
| 阔 闊 | rich; wide; broad | |
| 谦虚 謙虛 | modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks | |
| 奏 奏 | to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old) | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 不怎么 不怎麼 | not very; not particularly | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 壶 壺 | pot; classifier for bottled liquid | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 渡 渡 | to cross; to pass through; to ferry | |
| 牢 牢 | firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 扁 扁 | small boat | |
| 债 債 | debt | |
| 虽 雖 | although; even though | |
| 犬 犬 | dog; Kangxi radical 94 | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! |