Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- (idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
- (name) Brown; Blang ethnic group
- primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
- empress; imperial consort
- double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
- pool; pond; (of metals etc) luster; favor or beneficence; damp; moist
- to be keen on; to have a passion for
- hobby; indulgence; habit; addiction
- to infer; to judge; inference; judgment; conclusion
- to sit and pontificate; to find answers through theory and not through practice (idiom)
- to step down gracefully (humble expression); to concede defeat; to play second fiddle
- ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants
- (idiom) (of troops) to be utterly routed and dispersed
- to get into difficulties; to meet with danger
- to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
- right away; quickly; immediately
- to take up a post; to start in a new job
- teachers of the state
- to travel far away from home
- earnest; sincere
- antisocial; reclusive; eccentric
- taciturn; reticent
- very friendly; intimate
- to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory); to give advice (idiom)
- younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- length (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page
- ruling class; leaders (of society); oligarchy
- sound dissipation; noise reduction
- (literary) to seek; to find
- wool; fleece
- vegetable farmer
- to renovate; to repair (a building)
- the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC)
- watchman's rattle
- to drift without a resting place (idiom); roving; errant; vagrant; erratic
- to go out; to leave for another place
- to wander (typically of an errant priest)