Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to control; to restrict; (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)
- junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs
- see 身不由己[shen1 bu4 you2 ji3]
- lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom); fig. easily solved
- to melt like ice and break like tiles; to disintegrate; to dissolve
- elated
- clean; to clean
- to permeate
- inhibition
- to roast; to bake
- oven
- to punch a hole; to perforate; (medicine) perforation
- lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched; roughly comparable (opponents)
- a smidgen; a little bit; a few
- firefly
- the rear; far behind the front line
- somewhat; a little; slightly
- collision; crash; to crash together; to collide with; to bump into
- to meet the enemy head-on
- Chinese boxing; fist and feet; punching and kicking
- agreement; to agree; to get on with; congenial; agreeing with; to ally oneself with sb
- unfailing; never weakening; enduring; unstoppable
- prologue
- (coll.) unable to withstand; cannot bear; can't stand it; no match for
- a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common; manifestly superior
- (onom.) clink of jewels; exquisite; detailed and fine; clever; nimble
- signal
- (of tall trees) dense, thick; awe-inspiring
- (idiom) to have committed heinous crimes