Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- lapel of jacket; heart; aspiration; vision
- person of low social status (old); I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself); nasty person; vile character
- successor
- 江河 jiāng hé: 江河 jiang1 he2: river江河 Jiāng Hé: 江河 Jiang1 He2: Yangtze and Yellow rivers
- empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
- conveniently; without extra trouble; convenient; handy
- to have one's back towards
- to have no other choice
- to excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent; outstanding
- dazzling; brilliant
- to fight; to exchange blows
- to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open
- 尽数 jǐn shù: 尽数 jin3 shu4: (Tw) in its entirety; all of it; all of them尽数 jìn shù: 尽数 jin4 shu4: in its entirety; all of it; all of them尽数 jìn shǔ: 尽数 jin4 shu3: to count all of them
- lawn mower (machine)
- stiff; rigid; inflexible; forcibly
- to wrestle; (fig.) to lock horns; to tussle; to wrangle; Taiwan pr. [jiao3li4]
- to pit oneself against sb; to compete with sb; contest; battle; to haggle; to quibble
- to compress; compression
- technique of writing, calligraphy or drawing
- charm or grace (in poetry or art)
- graffiti; scrawl; poor calligraphy; to write badly; to scribble
- to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
- to convert to (a religion)
- 组 zǔ: 组 zu3: to form; to organize; group; team; classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries组 Zǔ: 组 Zu3: surname Zu
- to push aside; to part; to brush away
- a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
- to be on foot
- to go straight to; to make a beeline for
- (of water, people, thoughts etc) to surge; to well up and flow; to move in waves
- sickle
- lever-style guillotine; to chop using this type of guillotine
- cannot bear to
- main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point; main viewpoint of a matter; mainstream (culture etc)