Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to sell off (one's property)
- funds; capital
- to collect all the bits to make a whole
- (bound form) general; approximate; without exception; categorically; (bound form) bearing; deportment
- in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- to look face to face
- in the final analysis; in the end
- to blush; to redden (with shame, indignation etc)
- in charge of; to control
- national treasury
- (criminal) gang; gang member; accomplice; crony
- careless; negligent; sloppy; not serious
- annoyed; riled; vexed
- ashamed
- to spin; to rotate; to revolve
- quick-witted; resourceful
- absent-minded; distracted; dazzled; vaguely; dimly
- to rove around; to run around in circles; to walk back and forth
- You're welcome; Don't mention it
- intoxicated
- to haggle over price; to bargain
- ambience; atmosphere
- windblown dust; hardships of travel; vicissitudes of life; prostitution
- to catalyze (a reaction); catalysis
- rampant; unbridled; arrogant; aggressive
- to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently; to ask repeatedly; to stick to a point; (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound
- to stir restlessly; to be agitated; commotion; agitation
- glistening yellow; golden
- to glint; to glitter; to sparkle; to radiate
- round; circular
- to intrude; to charge in; to gate-crash
- copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- red; scarlet; bare; naked
- dark; dim (light); dull (color); drab; (fig.) gloomy; bleak
- tint; coloring; coloration; (fig.) flavor; character
- a pass (authority to enter); a laissez-passer or safe conduct
- to choose; to pick; to select; to elect
- monthly income (in kind)
- rival; competitor
- to evaluate; to assess; assessment; evaluation
- head and face filthy with grime (idiom); covered in dirt; dejected and depressed