Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- leopard cat; (literary) various small wild mammals (including raccoon dog, civet, wildcat)
- to push over; to overthrow
- at this time; at this moment
- to be off-key or out of tune (while singing) (colloquial)
- singing voice; fig. original voice of a poet
- slurry; mud
- to empty (a bag); to turn inside out; to turn out
- it would appear; it seems (that)
- hunger; starvation; famine
- succulent; juicy
- to glide
- to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively; healthy and active
- hue; tone
- melody
- unprecedented and never to be duplicated; the first and the last; unmatched; unique
- slaughterhouse; abattoir
- clear (water); thorough
- small bird; young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick); (fig.) penis (kiddie term); (golf) birdie
- narrowly; almost; nearly
- to extract; to squeeze out (juice etc); (fig.) to exploit
- strong breeze (meteorology)
- to disperse
- two-character surname Baili
- countless; innumerable
- armor
- freak; weird
- to come to; to awaken; to regain consciousness
- pretty; beautiful
- sad; wretched; miserable
- midstream
- to banish; to deport; to send into exile; to be marooned
- cross-legged
- sunlight
- to appear; to look; form; shape
- in the extreme (idiom); incapable of further increase
- to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
- to focus light (e.g. in theater); to spotlight
- (lit. and fig.) focal point; focus
- to burn (food by overroasting etc)