Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to seek to protect; to ensure; to maintain; to guard
- to raise eyebrows
- secret trouble; sorrow; difficulties
- appearing and disappearing (idiom); intermittently visible
- 屯 zhūn: 屯 zhun1: used in 屯邅[zhun1 zhan1]屯 tún: 屯 tun2: to station (soldiers); to store up; village
- to keep in mind; to remember
- to disassociate; to drift away; to leave (a collective); free (component)
- to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- (idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years
- duty; obligation (CL:項|项[xiang4]); volunteer (work etc)
- to surge like the tide
- inevitably
- massive military force
- (idiom) everyone is anxious; (of a group of people) to feel anxious
- to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely; to let the world know
- to cremate
- dust; dirt; earth
- bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb; undaunted by perils
- bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains
- jar; pitcher; pot
- to bury; to hide by burying; hidden
- to defect
- aimless; at random
- twilight; afterglow
- evening mist
- apparatus; rites; appearance; present; ceremony
- the whole night; all through the night
- harem; chambers of imperial concubines
- to amuse; to divert; happy; joyful; pleasure; amusement
- to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind
- for example
- to involve; to drag in
- to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion; to retire
- all night; throughout the night
- the whole night
- to water down; to play down; to trivialize; to weaken; to become dull with time; to desalinate; desalination
- to have an audience (with the Emperor)
- imperceptible influence; to influence secretly
- to rupture; to burst open; to break; to break off relations with; a rupture
- rest (music)
- clear place; out in the open
- to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground; tricky and inconstant; to make love