New Legend of Madame White Snake
Episode review
Bai Suzhen Prays for a Child and Conceives
S1E6 · 白素贞求子怀孕
Vocabulary
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| 真凭实据 真憑實據 | reliable evidence (idiom); conclusive proof; definitive evidence | Idiom |
| 轻举妄动 輕舉妄動 | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 | lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others | Idiom |
| 人命关天 人命關天 | human life is beyond value (idiom) | Idiom |
| 斗气 鬥氣 | to have a grudge against | Xiehouyu |
| 开眼界 開眼界 | to broaden one's horizons | Xiehouyu |
| 胡扯 胡扯 | to chatter; nonsense; blather | Xiehouyu |
| 弄巧成拙 弄巧成拙 | to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 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)? | |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 三皇 三皇 | the three legendary sovereigns of the third millennium BC: Suiren 燧人[Sui4 ren2], Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1] and Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2], or 天皇|天皇[Tian1 huang2], 地皇|地皇[Di4 huang2] and 人皇|人皇[Ren2 huang2] | |
| 祖师 祖師 | patriarch (founder) | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 失窃 失竊 | to lose by theft; to have one's property stolen | |
| 旷世 曠世 | incomparable; none to compare with at that time | |
| 痊愈 痊癒 | to recover completely (from illness or injury) | |
| 祖师爷 祖師爺 | founder (of a craft, religious sect etc) | |
| 禀告 稟告 | to report (to one's superior) | |
| 奏乐 奏樂 | to perform music; to play a tune | |
| 承蒙 承蒙 | to be indebted (to sb) | |
| 三昧 三昧 | samadhi | |
| 充军 充軍 | to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 枯木 枯木 | dead tree | |
| 飞贼 飛賊 | cat burglar; burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls; intruding enemy airman; air marauder | |
| 魂魄 魂魄 | soul | |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 衙役 衙役 | bailiff of feudal yamen | |
| 火烛 火燭 | fire and candles; household things that burn | |
| 卧病 臥病 | ill in bed; bed-ridden | |
| 案情 案情 | details of a case; case | |
| 悬壶 懸壺 | (literary) to practice medicine; to work as a pharmacist | |
| 睁开 睜開 | to open (one's eyes) | |
| 从轻发落 從輕發落 | 从: from, by, since, whence, through · 轻: light; easy, simple; gentle · 发: issue, dispatch, send out; hair · 落: fall, drop; net income, surplus | |
| 凡人 凡人 | ordinary person; mortal; earthling | |
| 手足 手足 | hands and feet; (fig.) brothers; retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
| 超群 超群 | surpassing; preeminent; outstanding | |
| 仰仗 仰仗 | to rely on; to depend on | |
| 临终 臨終 | approaching one's end; with one foot in the grave | |
| 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 | |
| 老伯 老伯 | uncle (polite form of address for older male) | |
| 妙用 妙用 | to use (sth) in an ingenious way; marvelously effective use | |
| 结缘 結緣 | to form ties; to become attached (to sb, sth) | |
| 生生世世 生生世世 | 生: life, living, lifetime; birth · 生: life, living, lifetime; birth · 世: generation; world; era · 世: generation; world; era | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 家娘 家娘 | (dialect) husband's mother | |
| 期许 期許 | to hope; to expect; expectation(s) |