New Legend of Madame White Snake
Episode review
The Wenqu Star Born to the Xu Family
S1E26 · 文曲星许门降生
Vocabulary
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| 婴儿 嬰兒 | infant; baby; lead (Pb) | |
| 产 產 | to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property | |
| 素 素 | raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 指腹为婚 指腹為婚 | to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom) | Idiom |
| 眼不见为净 眼不見為淨 | what remains unseen is deemed to be clean; what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom) | Idiom |
| 绰绰有余 綽綽有餘 | (idiom) more than enough | Idiom |
| 欲言又止 欲言又止 | to want to say sth but then hesitate | Idiom |
| 前功尽弃 前功盡棄 | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain | Idiom |
| 破天荒 破天荒 | unprecedented; for the first time; never before; first ever | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 娃儿 娃兒 | children (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 佛爷 佛爺 | the Buddha (honorific) | |
| 蜈蚣 蜈蚣 | centipede | |
| 施主 施主 | donor (Buddhist address) | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 金山寺 金山寺 | Jinshan Temple, where Fahai lives (from Madam White Snake) | |
| 下凡 下凡 | (of immortals) to descend to the human world | |
| 嫁人 嫁人 | (of a woman) to get married; to take a husband | |
| 产婆 產婆 | midwife | |
| 报恩 報恩 | to pay a debt of gratitude; to repay a kindness | |
| 废纸 廢紙 | waste paper | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 招亲 招親 | select a spouse | |
| 佛号 佛號 | one of the many names of Buddha | |
| 天理不容 天理不容 | not tolerated by heavenly principle (idiom); utterly immoral; an outrage against natural justice | |
| 打斗 打鬥 | to fight | |
| 泄恨 洩恨 | to give vent to anger | |
| 解毒 解毒 | to detoxify; to relieve fever (in Chinese medicine) | |
| 生灵 生靈 | (literary) the people; living thing; creature | |
| 长钉 長釘 | spike | |
| 串门子 串門子 | to call on sb; to drop in; to visit sb's home | |
| 原形 原形 | original shape; true appearance (under the disguise); true character | |
| 传扬 傳揚 | to spread (by word of mouth) | |
| 服侍 服侍 | to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband |