Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- 签 qiān: 签 qian1: to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document; visa签 qiān: 签 qian1: inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag
- to annotate; to add marginal comments on; criticism; marginalia
- honesty; trustworthiness; good faith
- to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted; to neglect (one's work or study)
- to brand (cattle etc); brand; (fig.) to leave a lasting mark; to stigmatize; mark; stamp; stigma
- to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting; (fig.) submissive
- sword and spear; weapons
- to accumulate wealth; to rake in money
- outsider; foreigner; stranger
- to be careful; to pay attention to
- cunning; dexterous; ingenious
- bold and decisive
- to go all out; to work energetically
- fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"
- domain; sphere; field; territory; area
- to subsidize; to provide financial aid; subsidy
- usefulness; effectiveness; (economics) utility
- mental and physical efforts
- energy left over (to do sth else)
- cook; chef
- cakes; pastries
- barbecue; to roast
- appetite; liking
- to pour wine or liquor
- to assemble
- wig
- to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also 服事[fu2 shi4]
- an ordinary meal; simple home cooking
- culinary dish
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- lintel (of a door); fig. family's social status
- to serve; to wait upon
- lit. the divine steed Feihuang gallops (idiom); fig. to achieve meteoric success in one's career
- mansion house; official residence
- to entertain (for dinner); to invite to dinner
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)