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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| 从未 從未 | never | |
| 率 率 | rate; frequency | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 患 患 | to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry | |
| 拨 撥 | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 并非 並非 | really isn't | |
| 探 探 | to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 有所 有所 | somewhat; to some extent | |
| 恐怖 恐怖 | terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 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 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 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 | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 垂帘听政 垂簾聽政 | lit. to govern from behind the curtain; to rule in place of the emperor (idiom) | Idiom |
| 妖言惑众 妖言惑眾 | to mislead the public with rumors (idiom); to delude the people with lies | Idiom |
| 粉身碎骨 粉身碎骨 | lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom); fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life | Idiom |
| 如虎添翼 如虎添翼 | lit. like a tiger that has grown wings; with redoubled power (idiom) | Idiom |
| 气宇轩昂 氣宇軒昂 | to have an imposing or impressive appearance; impressive appearance; straight and impressive looking | Idiom |
| 轻举妄动 輕舉妄動 | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 雕虫小技 雕蟲小技 | insignificant talent; skill of no high order; minor accomplishment | Idiom |
| 自投罗网 自投羅網 | to walk right into the trap | Idiom |
| 藏头露尾 藏頭露尾 | to hide the head and show the tail (idiom); to give a partial account; half-truths | Idiom |
| 命在旦夕 命在旦夕 | to be at death's door (idiom) | Idiom |
| 鞭辟入里 鞭闢入裡 | penetrated; trenchant; incisive | Idiom |
| 祸国殃民 禍國殃民 | to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom) | Idiom |
| 是非曲直 是非曲直 | lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits; pros and cons | Idiom |
| 安居乐业 安居樂業 | to live in peace and work happily (idiom) | Idiom |
| 惹不起 惹不起 | can't afford to offend; dare not provoke; difficult to deal with; insufferable | Xiehouyu |
| 唠唠叨叨 嘮嘮叨叨 | to chatter; to babble | Xiehouyu |
| 屈打成招 屈打成招 | to obtain confessions under torture | Xiehouyu |
| 自作聪明 自作聰明 | (idiom) to think oneself clever | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 逆天 逆天 | (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible | 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)? | |
| 国师 國師 | national preceptor |