The Forbidden City
Episode review
Paintings and Calligraphic Works in the Imperial Palace
S1E7 · 故宫书画
Vocabulary
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| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 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) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 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 | |
| 空空如也 空空如也 | as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous; hollow; empty (argument, head etc) | Idiom |
| 千丝万缕 千絲萬縷 | linked in countless ways | Idiom |
| 兵荒马乱 兵荒馬亂 | soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war | Idiom |
| 销声匿迹 銷聲匿跡 | to vanish without trace (idiom); to lie low | Idiom |
| 如出一辙 如出一轍 | to be precisely the same; to be no different | Idiom |
| 天灾人祸 天災人禍 | natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom) | Idiom |
| 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)? | |
| 文青 文青 | young person who adopts an outwardly artistic or intellectual style | |
| 收藏家 收藏家 | a collector (e.g. of artworks) | |
| 风雅 風雅 | cultured; sophisticated | |
| 藏书 藏書 | to collect books; library collection | |
| 名作 名作 | masterpiece; famous work | |
| 臣子 臣子 | official in feudal court; subject | |
| 搜刮 搜刮 | to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry | |
| 真伪 真偽 | true or bogus; authenticity | |
| 笔墨 筆墨 | pen and ink; words; writing | |
| 有生之年 有生之年 | (idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years | |
| 赏赐 賞賜 | to bestow a reward; a reward | |
| 剧集 劇集 | (serialized TV or Internet drama) show; series | |
| 妙笔 妙筆 | talented, gifted or ingenious writing | |
| 家产 家產 | family property | |
| 谋取 謀取 | to seek; to strive for; to obtain; see also | |
| 私利 私利 | personal gain; (one's own) selfish interest | |
| 贪财 貪財 | to be greedy in getting money | |
| 上吊 上吊 | to hang oneself | |
| 文臣 文臣 | civilian court official (in former times) | |
| 优待 優待 | preferential treatment; to give preferential treatment | |
| 逢迎 逢迎 | to fawn on; to ingratiate oneself; (literary) to meet face to face | |
| 优劣 優劣 | good and bad; merits and drawbacks | |
| 馈赠 饋贈 | to present (a gift) to (sb) | |
| 批注 批註 | to annotate; to add marginal comments on; criticism; marginalia | |
| 劫难 劫難 | calamity | |
| 一夜之间 一夜之間 | (lit. and fig.) overnight | |
| 轻浮 輕浮 | frivolous; careless; giddy | |
| 距今 距今 | before the present; (a long period) ago | |
| 流逝 流逝 | (of time) to pass; to elapse | |
| 印记 印記 | imprint; trace | |
| 延发 延發 | delayed action | |
| 临死 臨死 | facing death; at death's door | |
| 殉葬 殉葬 | (of servants etc) to be buried alive with the deceased; (of utensils etc) to be buried with the dead |