Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
- geography
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type
- 排满 pái Mǎn: 排满 pai2 Man3: (historical) anti-Manchu; to oppose Manchu rule排满 pái mǎn: 排满 pai2 man3: to be filled with (things arranged in rows); (of a schedule) to be packed; to be fully booked
- just; simply; stubbornly; really
- model or template character; written slogan or phrase; mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)
- Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary; CL:本[ben3]
- over ten thousand; fig. untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- to roll; to wander around; to appear repeatedly
- student; schoolchild
- slightly-built; petite
- figure (esp. a woman's)
- (idiom) single-minded; fully focused
- bookend
- to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together; to duplicate; one over another; superposition; an overlap; redundancy; reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)
- game (CL:場|场[chang3]); to play
- child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child)
- competition (sports etc); match; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]; to compete
- to frighten; to horrify; to terrify
- painstakingly; with great trouble
- pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆[ta3 po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart
- to collapse (lit. or fig.)
- familiar-looking; to seem familiar
- the day before yesterday
- manager; administrator
- 松 sōng: 松 song1: pine; CL:棵[ke1]松 Sōng: 松 Song1: surname Song松 sōng: 松 song1: loose; to loosen; to relax; floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling)
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- to hit on someone; to strike up a conversation; to start talking to end an awkward silence or embarrassing situation
- messy; slovenly; unkempt
- to understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken)
- to despise; to disdain; to look down upon
- polite; courteous; formal; modest
- to call; to address as; form of address; appellation
- 人家 rén jiā: 人家 ren2 jia1: household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]人家 rén jia: 人家 ren2 jia5: other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
- to treat sb with the formal courtesy accorded to a host or a guest
- idiot; fool
- dynasty