Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings 2018
狄仁杰之四大天王
Dee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of mysterious warriors wearing Chiyou ghost masks, foxes that speak human language and the pillar sculptures in the palace coming alive.
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Vocabulary
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| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 重见天日 重見天日 | to see the light again (idiom); delivered from oppression | Idiom |
| 不快 不快 | unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 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 |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 哪门子 哪門子 | (coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what; what kind; why on earth | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | 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 |
| 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 |
| 天竺 天竺 | the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) | Proper Noun |
| 邙山 邙山 | Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan, with many Han, Wei and Jin dynasty royal tombs | Proper Noun |
| 打下 打下 | to lay (a foundation); to conquer (a city etc); to shoot down (a bird etc) | Proper Noun |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 住手 住手 | to desist; to stop; to stay one's hand | |
| 不在 不在 | not to be present; to be out; (euphemism) to pass away; to be deceased | |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 到了 到了 | at last; finally; in the end | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 几个 幾個 | a few; several; how many | |
| 拿下 拿下 | to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc) | |
| 现 現 | appear, manifest, become visible | |
| 要有 要有 | to need; to require; must have | |
| 这位 這位 | this (person) | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 这天 這天 | this day | |
| 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 | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 手下 手下 | under one's control or administration; subordinates; (money etc) on hand; sb's financial means; when taking action | |
| 四大 四大 | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters,,, 大字報|大 | |
| 师 師 | teacher, master, specialist | |
| 门外 門外 | outside the door | |
| 真人 真人 | a real person; Daoist spiritual master | |
| 有点 有點 | a little | |
| 怎么回事 怎麼回事 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? | |
| 不见了 不見了 | to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found | |
| 回京 回京 | to return to the capital | |
| 不想 不想 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise | |
| 自己人 自己人 | those on our side; ourselves; one's own people; one of us |