Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- flourishing period; golden age
- grand occasion
- place; seat
- hard to solve; hard to dispel; hard to understand; hard to undo
- ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring)
- to die (idiom); to breathe one's last; to give up the ghost
- to fondle; to caress; to stroke
- nervous; on edge; excitable; neurotic
- decline to comment; not express an opinion; be noncommittal; hedge
- to send one's greetings; to send one's best regards; to devote attention to
- 牛头 Níu Tóu: 牛头 Niu2 Tou2: Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology牛头 níu tóu: 牛头 niu2 tou2: ox head; ox-head shaped wine vessel
- will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
- (idiom) to say not a single word about it
- priest
- to pursue sth back to its origins; to trace back to the source; to get to the bottom of sth
- decreed by fate (idiom); destined; fated
- to look at from close up; to watch intently
- magnetic; magnetism
- cluster of flowers; inflorescence; flowering shrub
- main hall; honorific for one's parents (old)
- gifted scholar
- to till; to cultivate
- too high to reach (idiom); eminent and unapproachable
- to sob spasmodically
- to output; to deliver (energy, data, signals etc); to export (goods, services, technology etc)
- to issue (a memorandum etc) to lower levels; to distribute (e.g. disaster relief to victims)
- to follow; to abide by; to comply with
- to break ground; to start digging; to plough; to break through the ground (of seedling); fig. the start of a building project
- to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- to let nature take its course (idiom)
- for a very long time
- top secret
- numerous types; many kinds