Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- smooth and evasive; slick and sly
- to show respect from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
- contract of alliance; oath or treaty between allies
- cowardice; timid
- to deserve
- to change over to; to switch to; to use (sth different)
- (dialect) wife; (derog.) woman
- lady's chamber; boudoir; harem
- Lester or Leicester (name); Leicester, English city in East Midlands
- senile dementia; Alzheimer's disease
- wetland
- to draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
- to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly; the emergence (e.g. of a power)
- the entire sum; the whole amount
- empress
- hard to pronounce; awkward-sounding
- rank or step; stairs
- to discuss official business
- Luther (name); Martin Luther (1483-1546), reformation protestant minister
- flight of steps; (fig.) stepping stone; way to reach the goal of
- to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail
- way; route; road
- enlightened; open-minded; enlightenment
- to bribe; a bribe
- government decree
- the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature); plebeian
- extremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon
- to seal up (a door with a paper seal, or a document); to confer an additional title on a nobleman
- tear apart
- brow beaded with sweat; perspiring freely