Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- right side
- to serve as a sacrificial victim; to suffer for sb else; scapegoat; to share sb's fate
- 鲜 xiān: 鲜 xian1: fresh; bright (in color); delicious; tasty; delicacy; aquatic foods鲜 xiǎn: 鲜 xian3: few; rare鲜 xiān: 鲜 xian1: fish
- (bound form) radiance; brilliance; to shine
- pyramid (building or structure)
- abundant; plentiful
- ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale
- bribe; bribery
- see 菱花鏡|菱花镜[ling2 hua1 jing4]
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- merit; efficacy; competence; skill; power
- arrow-blocking shield; (fig.) pretext; cover; sth used to deflect blame, criticism or pressure
- to lie down; to drop to the ground
- a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc); to burn (the skin etc); (fig.) (of anger, jealousy etc) to hurt (sb)
- obscene
- to obstruct; to stop up
- heroic spirit
- statutory; law-based; legal
- a rank growth of grass; uncultivated land; wilderness
- conceited; to take responsibility
- duckweed
- often; frequently
- puppet; figure
- 炸锅 zhà gūo: 炸锅 zha4 guo1: (of food) to burst out of the pot; (fig.) to be in an uproar炸锅 zhá gūo: 炸锅 zha2 guo1: fryer
- cold (climate); frigid; very cold
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs; to take matters into one's own hands
- hissing sound (onom.)
- (bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
- to die; to lose one's life
- to require effort; strenuous
- dizzy; giddy; one's head spins
- greasy; soft; unctuous; intimate; tired of
- in silence; not speaking
- (onom.) breaking or snapping; (coll.) cut it out; stop it; also written 喀嚓[ka1 cha1]
- the way one is following; outlet