Six Hundred Years in the Forbidden City
Episode review
In the Forbidden City for 600 Years
S1E3 · 紫禁城“整容”秘术
Vocabulary
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| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 但 但 | but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 不见天日 不見天日 | all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice | Idiom |
| 老手 老手 | experienced person; an old hand at sth | Xiehouyu |
| 慢慢来 慢慢來 | take your time; take it easy | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乾 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 打下 打下 | to lay (a foundation); to conquer (a city etc); to shoot down (a bird etc) | Proper Noun |
| 山水 山水 | Sansui, Japanese company | Proper Noun |
| 中都 中都 | Zhongdu, capital of China during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), modern day Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 月月 月月 | every month | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 工 工 | labor, work; worker, laborer | |
| 百年 百年 | hundred years; century; lifetime | |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 天花 天花 | smallpox; ceiling; stamen of corn; (old) snow; (dialect) sesame oil | |
| 一次 一次 | first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
| 这就 這就 | immediately; at once | |
| 军 軍 | army, military; soldiers, troops | |
| 到了 到了 | at last; finally; in the end | |
| 一种 一種 | one kind of; one type of | |
| 最多 最多 | at most; maximum; greatest (amount); maximal | |
| 达 達 | arrive at, reach; intelligent; smooth, slippery | |
| 乾 乹 | dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male) | |
| 上手 上手 | to obtain; to master; overhand (serve etc); seat of honor | |
| 工匠 工匠 | artisan; smith | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia | |
| 亚 亞 | Asia; second | |
| 体 體 | body; group, class, body, unit; inferior | |
| 几天 幾天 | several days | |
| 天天 天天 | every day | |
| 在一起 在一起 | together |