Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- scholarly; refined; cultured; courteous
- cold air; a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
- learned; erudite; scholarly
- the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1] and the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
- (onom.) buzz; hum; drone
- main topic; matter at hand
- cautious and timid (idiom); prudent; careful
- (idiom) to act in concert; to pool ideas and efforts
- to investigate; to probe
- lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom); fig. lesson learned from past mistakes or failures
- staff; crew; personnel; CL:個|个[ge4]
- objection; dissent
- to show up; present (at the scene)
- city
- the whole nest came out (idiom); to turn out in full strength
- animal hide; leather; to reform; to remove; to expel (from office)
- to divide (into); to split a bonus; to break into; tenths; percentage allotment
- decomposed corpse
- to arrive in huge numbers; to flock there
- poison gas; toxic gas; manifestation of passion, anger etc (Buddhism)
- to rinse; to wash; (photography) to develop (film)
- prepared against war; to prepare for war; warmongering
- cantata; chorus
- dust
- fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
- joined as a string of pearls; in rapid succession; alignment; Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
- violent; fierce
- textbook; CL:本[ben3]
- unprecedented
- to have no offspring; never to be seen again; unique
- (of immortals) to descend to the human world
- to shuffle cards, dominoes or mahjong tiles etc; (fig.) to reshuffle; to reorganize; to shake up; to restructure
- financial affairs; finance