Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains; give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
- angry look; glare; scowl
- according to reason; in the ordinary course of events; normally
- guilty of terrible crimes (idiom); reprehensible
- flatiron; iron; branding iron; soldering iron
- to surround; to close in around (one's enemy, prey etc)
- copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
- (idiom) (usu. of sth abstract: an alliance, a conviction etc) unbreakable; rock-solid
- transient; fleeting
- desire to commit murder; great danger
- orthodox school; fig. traditional; old school; authentic; genuine
- to engage (in a fight)
- (coll.) wily old fox; crafty fellow
- to imagine that one's love is reciprocated; to shower affection on an uninterested party
- old friend; former acquaintance
- to show off one's ability
- agape and tongue-tied (idiom); at a loss for words; gaping and speechless
- bead; pearl; CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
- stem (of fruit)
- incoherent speech; to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
- to exist in name only; empty shell; useless (idiom)
- entity; substance; thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtual or online existence); the real thing (as opposed to an image or model of it)
- (bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent
- destructive
- hot water
- beads of sweat
- to solidify; to harden; (fig.) to make permanent; to become fixed
- to feel puzzled
- (literary) to move forward
- dagger
- majestic; boundless; to fill; to pervade