The Forbidden City
Episode review
Paintings and Calligraphic Works in the Imperial Palace
S1E7 · 故宫书画
Vocabulary
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| 品 品 | (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute) | |
| 线索 線索 | trail; clues; thread (of a story) | |
| 详细 詳細 | detailed; in detail; minute | |
| 插 插 | to insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose | |
| 之下 之下 | under; beneath; less than | |
| 库 庫 | warehouse; storehouse; (file) library | |
| 回头 回頭 | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by | |
| 扔 扔 | to throw; to throw away | |
| 说法 說法 | to expound Buddhist teachings | |
| 欣赏 欣賞 | to appreciate; to enjoy; to admire | |
| 签 籤 | inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag | |
| 有着 有著 | to have; to possess | |
| 洞 洞 | cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) | |
| 真相 真相 | the truth about sth; the actual facts | |
| 之外 之外 | outside; excluding | |
| 展示 展示 | to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit | |
| 运 運 | to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate | |
| 拍摄 拍攝 | to take (a picture); to shoot (a film) | |
| 幅 幅 | width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures | |
| 建筑 建築 | to construct; building | |
| 待 待 | to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to | |
| 居然 居然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to | |
| 尽管 儘管 | despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating | |
| 即使 即使 | even if; even though | |
| 再次 再次 | one more time; again; one more; once again | |
| 拥有 擁有 | to have; to possess | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 无用 無用 | useless; worthless | Xiehouyu |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 乾隆 乾隆 | the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title, personal name, reigned 1735-1799 | Proper Noun |
| 故宫博物院 故宮博物院 | Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing; National Palace Museum, Taipei | Proper Noun |
| 嘉庆 嘉慶 | Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name, reigned 1796-1820 | Proper Noun |
| 故宫 故宮 | the Forbidden City; abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 溥仪 溥儀 | Puyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor | Proper Noun |
| 紫禁城 紫禁城 | the Forbidden City; the Imperial Palace in Beijing; same as | Proper Noun |
| 明末 明末 | late Ming; first half of the 17th century | Proper Noun |
| 皇城 皇城 | Imperial City, inner part of Beijing, with the Forbidden City at its center | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 满清 滿清 | Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan) | Proper Noun |
| 崇祯 崇禎 | Chongzhen, reign name of last Ming emperor (1628-1644) | Proper Noun |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 王羲之 王羲之 | Wang Xizhi (303-361), famous calligrapher of Eastern Jin, known as the sage of calligraphy 書聖|书圣 | Proper Noun |