New Legend of Madame White Snake
Episode review
Top scholar Xu performs the pagoda rite
S1E49 · 许状元奉旨祭塔
Vocabulary
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| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 置 置 | to install; to place; to put; to buy | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 率 率 | rate; frequency | |
| 素 素 | raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever | |
| 患 患 | to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 探 探 | to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 一一 一一 | one by one; one after another | |
| 有所 有所 | somewhat; to some extent | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 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 | |
| 天翻地覆 天翻地覆 | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head | Idiom |
| 落井下石 落井下石 | to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom); to hit a person when he's down | Idiom |
| 贪生怕死 貪生怕死 | greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life; only interested in saving one's neck | Idiom |
| 始作俑者 始作俑者 | lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom); fig. the originator of an evil practice | Idiom |
| 大娘 大娘 | (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | 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)? | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 死罪 死罪 | capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies | |
| 侍郎 侍郎 | (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards; (also an official title in earlier dynasties) | |
| 案情 案情 | details of a case; case | |
| 姑爹 姑爹 | husband of father's sister; uncle | |
| 恕罪 恕罪 | please forgive me | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as | |
| 平身 平身 | rise (to subjects bowing) | |
| 纱帽 紗帽 | gauze hat; (fig.) job as an official | |
| 有缘 有緣 | related; brought together by fate | |
| 化作 化作 | to change into; to turn into; to become | |
| 耿耿 耿耿 | bright; devoted; having sth on one's mind; troubled | |
| 冤狱 冤獄 | unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up | |
| 情有可原 情有可原 | pardonable (of interruption, misunderstanding etc) | |
| 心甘 心甘 | to be willing; to be satisfied | |
| 下凡 下凡 | (of immortals) to descend to the human world | |
| 凡事 凡事 | everything | |
| 不善 不善 | bad; ill; not good at; not to be pooh-poohed; quite impressive | |
| 天谴 天譴 | the wrath of Heaven; imperial displeasure | |
| 切勿 切勿 | by no means | |
| 罪孽 罪孽 | sin; crime; wrongdoing |