Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- far away; a distant location
- the sun sets in the west (idiom)
- to stand in great numbers
- 坊 fáng: 坊 fang2: workshop; mill; Taiwan pr. [fang1]坊 fāng: 坊 fang1: lane (usually as part of a street name); memorial archway坊 Fāng: 坊 Fang1: surname Fang
- thick smoke
- in picturesque disorder (idiom); irregular arrangement with charming effect
- lit. to pile up (bricks); to pack; fig. to pad out (writing with fancy phrases); ornate rhetoric
- accidental; image; pair; mate
- bold; open-minded; heroic
- first rate; top rank; number one
- (mountain) peak
- to flutter; to flap
- big head; mask in the shape of a big head; the larger end of sth; the main part; the lion's share; dupe; sucker; (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] on the obverse side
- venture capital investment
- expensive; costly
- one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
- situation; existing state of affairs
- future events; and what happened next... (in fiction); funeral arrangements
- to consider; to weigh (a matter); to balance (pros and cons)
- to give up; to abandon; to abort
- to drive away; to force out; to repel
- to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不[bu4] or 只[zhi3] or 何[he2] etc) to need; to require; to take
- overwhelming
- to face (reality, danger etc)
- arrogance; proud of sth
- to be duty bound; to be one's unshirkable responsibility
- (bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy
- fault; mistake; to miss (a chance)