Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- title; official rank
- position; post; job
- to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope
- cattle and sheep; livestock
- to drool (over) (idiom); to yearn for; to covet; to crave
- rubbish; waste material; useless person
- to award; to confer
- good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad
- clergy; clerical
- small town
- to not calculate; to not count; to not be considered (as); to have no weight
- see 可不是[ke3 bu5 shi4]
- travel expenses
- economy; economic
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- to charge; to demand payment
- (idiom) to indulge in flights of fancy; to let one's imagination run wild
- to remain calm in the face of events (idiom)
- treatment; pay; salary; status; rank
- to contain in a concealed form; to keep covered up; implicit
- to wait; to wait for
- impurity
- to pretend; to feign; to act a part
- to come to oneself; to come to realize; to come to see the truth; to wake up to reality
- to take away
- (of alcohol) to ferment; (of a crisis) to be brewing; to mull over (an issue); to hold exploratory discussions
- acting; performing skills
- a good deal of; quite a lot
- beginning; to start
- to fall asleep
- short period of time; a moment
- lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom); strapped for cash; unable to make ends meet
- to have; to possess
- behind the scenes
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- expert; past master; dab hand
- communication; social intercourse
- to engage in social activities; to socialize; dinner party; banquet; social engagement
- blood vessels
- to temper oneself; to steel oneself; self-discipline; endurance
- connoisseur; expert
- original