Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to lay one's cards on the table
- to throttle; to choke to death
- drawer
- to draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch; to delineate contours of; to give a brief account of
- waste paper
- influence; impact
- miserable; wretched
- monetary reward
- cannot help; to be beyond control of
- nature; innate tendency
- to pay no heed to (idiom); to ignore; to brush aside
- from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water; brave; willing to risk life and limb
- (of two performers) to speak or sing alternately; to be fit for the purposes of a job or task; (of food) to suit sb's taste
- baozi; bao (steamed stuffed bun)
- great merit; great service
- (idiom) so that's how it is; I see
- matters; arrangements
- file; folder; dossier
- roll (of names); register; CL:本[ben3]
- to change profession
- a book; a volume
- old and gray-haired
- taboo; contraindication (medicine); to abstain from
- lengthy (report or speech)
- to advise; to attempt to convince
- to say goodbye; leave-taking; farewells
- the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure
- to inform against sb
- spiritual influence (of mountains etc); cleverness; ingeniousness
- to retrieve (data); to look up; retrieval; search
- to thumb through; to flip through (a book)
- illustration
- half-naked
- a carved printing block
- to throw into
- vivid and lifelike (idiom); true to life; realistic
- the back; the reverse side; the wrong side
- blank space
- (printing) type; movable letters