Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to visit (as a customer)
- steamed bun
- inn; old-style hotel (CL:家[jia1]); (bound form) shop; store
- grocery store; emporium
- to dig a well
- brick
- to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed); to carve; to cut; to study meticulously; stingy; miserly; to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
- brick; tile (floor or wall, not roof); CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- house door; family clan
- hey
- store; shop
- 尾 wěi: 尾 wei3: tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish尾 yǐ: 尾 yi3: horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
- to fall and smash into pieces
- to repair (sth broken); to restore (sth damaged); to establish friendly relations with; (literary) to do meritorious deeds
- hillside
- old lady
- entirely different; different as black and white
- everything clear and in good order (idiom); neat and tidy
- husband's mother; mother-in-law; grandma
- iron ore; iron ore mine
- crucible
- to take care of oneself; to provide for oneself
- to give material assistance to
- to fall ill and die; to die of illness
- all the year round
- to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom); to fall ill from constant overwork
- one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth); biological (parents); birth (parents)
- to die; to pass away
- the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning; fig. huge changes in the world
- grave; tomb
- gravestone; tombstone
- to cast (pour metal into a mold)
- glossy; sleek; smooth
- insipid; diluted; weak; mild; light in color; tasteless; indifferent