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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| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 罢了 罷了 | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) | |
| 佛 佛 | Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) | |
| 钻 鑽 | to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain | |
| 夺 奪 | to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose | |
| 判 判 | to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; clearly distinguishable | |
| 无关 無關 | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) | |
| 智慧 智慧 | wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 趟 䠀 | to wade; to trample; to turn the soil | |
| 全力 全力 | with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support) | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 赌 賭 | to bet; to gamble | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 护 護 | to protect | |
| 症状 症狀 | symptom (of an illness) | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 将军 將軍 | general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 扣 釦 | button | |
| 本身 本身 | itself; in itself; per se | |
| 负 負 | to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) | |
| 进攻 進攻 | to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports) | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 权力 權力 | power; authority | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 州 州 | prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland) | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 最佳 最佳 | optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 说实话 說實話 | to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 藏 藏 | to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 逼 偪 | variant of 逼; to compel; to pressure | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning |