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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| 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 | |
| 有所 有所 | somewhat; to some extent | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 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) | |
| 以 㕥 | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 耿耿于怀 耿耿於懷 | to take troubles to heart (idiom); brooding | Idiom |
| 操之过急 操之過急 | to act with undue haste (idiom); eager and impatient; overhasty | Idiom |
| 吉人自有天相 吉人自有天相 | Heaven helps the worthy (idiom) | Idiom |
| 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 |
| 担惊受怕 擔驚受怕 | (idiom) apprehensive; alarmed; anxious | Idiom |
| 赶尽杀绝 趕盡殺絕 | to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless | Idiom |
| 掷地有声 擲地有聲 | lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom); fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating; to have substance | Idiom |
| 洋洋洒洒 洋洋灑灑 | voluminous; flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom) | Idiom |
| 无事不登三宝殿 無事不登三寶殿 | lit. one doesn't visit a temple without a cause (idiom); fig. to visit sb with an ulterior motive (esp. to ask for sth) | 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 |
| 轻举妄动 輕舉妄動 | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 命在旦夕 命在旦夕 | to be at death's door (idiom) | 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 |
| 以牙还牙 以牙還牙 | a tooth for a tooth (retaliation) | 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 |
| 闷闷不乐 悶悶不樂 | depressed; sulky; moody; unhappy | Idiom |
| 借题发挥 借題發揮 | to use the current topic to put over one's own ideas; to use sth as a pretext to make a fuss | 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)? | |
| 会审 會審 | joint hearing; to review jointly (i.e. with other checkers) | |
| 启奏 啟奏 | report to the emperor | |
| 克扣 剋扣 | to dock; to deduct; to embezzle | |
| 遵旨 遵旨 | obey the decree | |
| 姑爹 姑爹 | husband of father's sister; uncle | |
| 太师 太師 | Grand Tutor | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 侍郎 侍郎 | (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards; (also an official title in earlier dynasties) | |
| 奏折 奏摺 | memorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form) | |
| 平身 平身 | rise (to subjects bowing) | |
| 乌纱帽 烏紗帽 | black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position); (fig.) official post | |
| 死罪 死罪 | capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies | |
| 长跪 長跪 | to kneel as in prayer (without sitting back on the heels) | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 案情 案情 | details of a case; case | |
| 牢狱之灾 牢獄之災 | imprisonment | |
| 顺道 順道 | on the way | |
| 探视 探視 | to visit (a patient, prisoner etc); to look inquiringly | |
| 面圣 面聖 | (old) to have an audience with the emperor | |
| 恕罪 恕罪 | please forgive me |