Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- soldier; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 法 fǎ: 法 fa3: law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])法 Fǎ: 法 Fa3: France; French; abbr. for 法國|法国[Fa3 guo2]; Taiwan pr. [Fa4]法 fǎ: 法 fa3: law
- to soak; to saturate
- 滑 huá: 滑 hua2: to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted滑 Huá: 滑 Hua2: surname Hua
- hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff
- to steep; to soak; to immerse
- 本色 běn sè: 本色 ben3 se4: inherent qualities; natural qualities; distinctive character; true qualities本色 běn shǎi: 本色 ben3 shai3: natural color
- to hold firmly, not let go
- to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse
- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- scar; traces
- (coll.) even if
- to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb)
- 吧 biā: 吧 bia1: (onom.) smack!吧 bā: 吧 ba1: bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc); to puff (on a pipe etc); (onom.) bang; abbr. for 貼吧|贴吧[tie1 ba1]吧 ba: 吧 ba5: (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?; ...I presume.
- life or death
- to fight and kill; to engage in fierce combat (also used figuratively of opposing chess players)
- skill; technique
- skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- will to fight; fighting spirit
- from childhood; from a young age
- 听 yǐn: 听 yin3: smile (archaic)听 tīng: 听 ting1: to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- ax; hatchet; CL:柄[bing3]
- 劈 pǐ: 劈 pi3: to split in two; to divide劈 pī: 劈 pi1: to hack; to chop; to split open; (of lightning) to strike
- bone; CL:根[gen1],塊|块[kuai4]; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
- for a moment; momentarily
- (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show
- enemy; CL:個|个[ge4]
- the body; organism (usually human); (fig.) fabric (of society etc); cohesive structure (of an entity)
- to criss-cross; to run unhindered across the whole country
- to tear
- muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)
- to split; to crack; to break open; to rend
- sharp; intense; penetrating; pointed; acute (illness)
- in the end; after all; eventually
- half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- tune; melody; tuning; cadence; intonation; (speech) tone
- to face; to confront
- to threaten; to menace
- mind; wisdom; consciousness
- to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)