New Legend of Madame White Snake
Episode review
Caiyin risks her life to save Meiniang
S1E44 · 采因冒死救媚娘
Vocabulary
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| 一官半职 一官半職 | a minor official post; a petty government position (idiom) | |
| 苍天 蒼天 | firmament | |
| 祭祖 祭祖 | to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors | |
| 家宅 家宅 | home; residence; house | |
| 姨母 姨母 | mother's sister; maternal aunt | |
| 铜钱 銅錢 | copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 奉命 奉命 | by order | |
| 担待 擔待 | to pardon; please excuse (me); to take responsibility | |
| 弄清 弄清 | to clarify; to fully understand | |
| 诛灭 誅滅 | to wipe out; to exterminate | |
| 宗师 宗師 | great scholar respected for learning and integrity | |
| 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 | |
| 缠绵 纏綿 | touching (emotions); lingering (illness) | |
| 化作 化作 | to change into; to turn into; to become | |
| 吉祥 吉祥 | lucky; auspicious; propitious | |
| 外头 外頭 | outside; out | |
| 甭 甭 | (contraction of 用) need not; please don't | |
| 明日 明日 | tomorrow | |
| 识 識 | to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shì] | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 舌头 舌頭 | tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information | |
| 一同 一同 | together | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 串 串 | to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across | |
| 添 添 | to add; to increase; to replenish | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 灭 滅 | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown | |
| 佛 佛 | Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 撑 撐 | to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support | |
| 天堂 天堂 | paradise; heaven | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 族 族 | race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | |
| 野 埜 | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral | |
| 顺 順 | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable | |
| 绝 絕 | to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means | |
| 挖 挖 | to dig; to excavate; to scoop out | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 塔 塔 | pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions |