Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- nothing can surpass
- in no shape to be seen; unpresentable; beyond recognition
- to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc); to try in vain
- clumsy; botched
- grandiose but impractical (idiom); large but of no real use
- lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful; to fail through lack of a final effort; to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
- to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
- to withdraw from; to evacuate
- insecticide
- What (noble errand) brings you here?; May I help you?; What can I do for you?
- inadvertently; unintentionally
- compass; a rule; regulation; to admonish; to plan; to scheme
- to turn back; to put back; reversal; melodic inversion (in music)
- outstanding; notable; remarkable; statistically significant
- disorder; chaos
- motionless; unable to move
- dagger; ladle; ancient type of spoon
- to extend; to stretch out
- authority; authoritative; power and prestige
- Nick (name)
- (loanword) mummy (preserved corpse)
- to return (to)
- hypnotism; hypnotherapy; mesmerism
- the land of dreams; slumberland
- to cave in; to collapse; to have a landslide
- water seepage
- hundred thousand
- to attack (the enemy)
- for now; for the time being; temporarily
- grieved; sorrowful
- (used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen
- to ponder earnestly; to give a lot of thought to sth
- to endure humiliation as part of an important mission (idiom); to suffer in silence
- willingly
- to go to jail; to be sent to prison
- to punish according to the law; to bring to justice
- final wishes of the departed