New Legend of Madame White Snake
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S1E7 · 饮雄黄白蛇现形
Vocabulary
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| 逆天 逆天 | (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible | Colloquialism |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | 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)? | |
| 家娘 家娘 | (dialect) husband's mother | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 偷盗 偷盜 | to steal | |
| 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] | |
| 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 | |
| 灵丹 靈丹 | 灵: spirit, soul; spiritual world · 丹: cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment) | |
| 家公 家公 | head of a family; (polite) my father; (polite) my grandfather; your esteemed father | |
| 衙役 衙役 | bailiff of feudal yamen | |
| 金山寺 金山寺 | Jinshan Temple, where Fahai lives (from Madam White Snake) | |
| 祖师 祖師 | patriarch (founder) | |
| 潜进 潛進 | to sneak in; to infiltrate | |
| 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 | |
| 成形 成形 | to take shape; shaping; forming | |
| 劫难 劫難 | calamity | |
| 怪罪 怪罪 | to blame | |
| 过堂 過堂 | to appear in court for trial (old); (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall | |
| 乌纱帽 烏紗帽 | black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position); (fig.) official post | |
| 何人 何人 | who | |
| 除掉 除掉 | to eliminate | |
| 案情 案情 | details of a case; case | |
| 清白 清白 | pure; innocent | |
| 一臂之力 一臂之力 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 臂: arm · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 力: power, capability, influence | |
| 罪责 罪責 | guilt | |
| 秉公 秉公 | justly; impartially | |
| 超群 超群 | surpassing; preeminent; outstanding | |
| 行踪 行蹤 | whereabouts; (lose) track (of) | |
| 枉费 枉費 | to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc); to try in vain | |
| 没命 沒命 | to lose one's life; to die; recklessly; desperately | |
| 物归原主 物歸原主 | (idiom) to return sth to its rightful owner | |
| 亲眼目睹 親眼目睹 | to see for oneself; to see with one's own eyes | |
| 祖师爷 祖師爺 | founder (of a craft, religious sect etc) | |
| 牢狱之灾 牢獄之災 | imprisonment | |
| 认命 認命 | to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate; to be resigned to sth | |
| 不甘心 不甘心 | not reconciled to; not resigned to | |
| 昏迷不醒 昏迷不醒 | to remain unconscious | |
| 施主 施主 | donor (Buddhist address) | |
| 征状 徵狀 | symptom | |
| 凌虐 凌虐 | to maltreat; to tyrannize | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 惨叫 慘叫 | to scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek | |
| 客官 客官 | honored customer (sir) | |
| 欺侮 欺侮 | to bully | |
| 告退 告退 | to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy |