Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to roast; to grill; to broil; to bake; to toast (bread); to warm oneself by a fire
- to pry open or apart; to spread (sth) open with both hands
- less than, <
- to exhale; to breathe out; (fig.) to let out pent-up feelings; to vent suppressed emotions; (linguistics) to aspirate
- to increase sharply; to rise dramatically
- power switch; gas valve; to open the city (or frontier) gate; to open and close; to switch on and off
- torrent; torrential current; whitewater
- cramp; charley horse; to pull a tendon
- early summer
- polar region
- severe winter
- ice sculpture
- to freeze
- breakfast
- to split; to crack; to burst (open)
- dough
- thumb; big toe
- indifferent to the passing of time; careless
- accurate; exact; precise; precision
- (physics) inertia; (fig.) force of habit; tendency to do things in the accustomed way; habitual
- to turn over; to transform
- bubble; blister
- to spit; fig. to spit out (a request, an agreement etc)
- to do less well than before; to make a concession; setback; backward step; leeway; room to maneuver; fallback
- course of events; process; (computing) process (a running instance of a program)
- crash; breakdown (of social values etc); burst; to crumble; to collapse
- dregs; bits; dregs (of society)
- tears; nasal mucus
- to create a big disturbance
- 丁 Dīng: 丁 Ding1: surname Ding丁 dīng: 丁 ding1: male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl丁 zhēng: 丁 zheng1: used in 丁丁[zheng1 zheng1]
- to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2]
- to endure; to suffer; hardships; torments; a hard time; a nuisance
- to look askance; cross or wall-eyed
- hen; don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)