Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 2010
狄仁杰之通天帝国
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
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Vocabulary
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| 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! | |
| 一错再错 一錯再錯 | to repeat errors; to continue blundering; to make continuous mistakes | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 菜 菜 | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor | 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 | (chess) move; trick; all right!; (dialect) to add | |
| 天后 天后 | Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu; Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name) | Proper Noun |
| 太白星 太白星 | Venus (planet) | Proper Noun |
| 大秦 大秦 | Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire | Proper Noun |
| 百里 百里 | two-character surname Baili | Proper Noun |
| 山南 山南 | Lhoka, prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region | Proper Noun |
| 淮南 淮南 | Huainan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province | Proper Noun |
| 水里 水裡 | Shuili Township in Nantou County, central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 中中 中中 | middling; average; impartial; (Hong Kong) secondary school that uses Chinese as the medium of instruction ("CMI school") | Proper Noun |
| 潼关 潼關 | Tongguan County in Weinan, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 明 明 | bright, light, brilliant; clear | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不想 不想 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 这就 這就 | immediately; at once | |
| 军 軍 | army, military; soldiers, troops | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 一个人 一個人 | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) | |
| 太医 太醫 | imperial physician | |
| 六十 六十 | sixty; 60 | |
| 在下 在下 | under; myself (humble) | |
| 你我 你我 | you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) | |
| 还给 還給 | to return sth to sb | |
| 在那儿 在那兒 | (adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else); just...ing (and nothing else) | |
| 国书 國書 | credentials (of a diplomat); documents exchanged between nations; national or dynastic history book | |
| 说说 說說 | to say sth | |
| 八十 八十 | eighty; 80 | |
| 地动 地動 | earthquake (old term) | |
| 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 | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 到了 到了 | at last; finally; in the end | |
| 妖人 妖人 | magician; sorcerer | |
| 几年 幾年 | a few years; several years; how many years? |