New Legend of Madame White Snake
Episode review
Hu Meiniang alters the registry by night
S1E42 · 胡媚娘夜改名册
Vocabulary
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| 浑身 渾身 | all over; from head to foot | |
| 闷 悶 | stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly | |
| 功 功 | meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics) | |
| 绑 綁 | to tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap | |
| 劫 刦 | to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 波 | |
| 采 採 | to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather | |
| 好笑 好笑 | laughable; funny; ridiculous | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 应付 應付 | to deal with; to cope | |
| 宗 宗 | school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 夜晚 夜晚 | night | |
| 真心 真心 | sincere; heartfelt | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 唯 唯 | only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义 or 论, e.g. 唯理论, rationalism) | |
| 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 | |
| 吉人天相 吉人天相 | Heaven helps the worthy (idiom) | Idiom |
| 狗拿耗子 狗拿耗子 | lit. a dog who catches mice; to be meddlesome (idiom) | Idiom |
| 忧心忡忡 憂心忡忡 | deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom) | Idiom |
| 假公济私 假公濟私 | official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position | Idiom |
| 脱胎换骨 脫胎換骨 | to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc) | Idiom |
| 得意洋洋 得意洋洋 | joyfully satisfied; to be immensely proud of oneself; proudly; an air of complacency | Idiom |
| 绝处逢生 絕處逢生 | (idiom) to find a way to survive when everything seems hopeless | Idiom |
| 滑天下之大稽 滑天下之大稽 | to be the most ridiculous thing in the world (idiom) | Idiom |
| 钻牛角尖 鑽牛角尖 | lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem; to bash one's head against a brick wall; a wild goose chase; a blind alley; to split hairs | Idiom |
| 打家劫舍 打家劫舍 | to break into a house for robbery (idiom) | Idiom |
| 老糊涂 老糊塗 | dotard | Xiehouyu |
| 砸锅 砸鍋 | to fail | Xiehouyu |
| 迷迷糊糊 迷迷糊糊 | in a daze; bewildered | Xiehouyu |
| 神不知鬼不觉 神不知鬼不覺 | top secret; hush-hush | Xiehouyu |
| 胡扯 胡扯 | to chatter; nonsense; blather | Xiehouyu |
| 自作多情 自作多情 | to imagine that one's love is reciprocated; to shower affection on an uninterested party | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 大娘 大娘 | (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 客官 客官 | honored customer (sir) | |
| 太师 太師 | Grand Tutor | |
| 不轨 不軌 | errant | |
| 通融 通融 | flexible; to accommodate; to stretch or get around regulations; a short-term loan | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 功名 功名 | scholarly honor (in imperial exams); rank; achievement; fame; glory | |
| 切莫 切莫 | you must not; Please don't...; be sure not to; on no account (do it) |