Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- dotard
- lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom); fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on; complete ignorance
- (idiom) to attack sb by innuendo; to make insinuations
- 伯 bǎi: 伯 bai3: one hundred (old)伯 bó: 伯 bo2: father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- second (i.e. number two); second time; twice; (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
- wine pot; wine cup
- to drink up; to finish (a drink)
- comfort; soft and fragrant; warm
- to originate; to initiate; beginning; origin
- side seam in an upper garment
- to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc); reverse flow; to back up (sewage)
- to fan into a flame; to incite
- to ignite; to detonate
- see 平利縣|平利县[Ping2 li4 Xian4]
- to hug and kiss
- to hug each other
- conjoined (twins); one-piece (garment)
- to warm oneself (by a fire, heater etc)
- to forget
- Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius; book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism
- dark circles (under one's eyes); black eye
- (geology) fault (CL:道[dao4]); (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill); (tomography) cross-sectional
- plants and animals; flora and fauna
- rare; precious and uncommon
- somewhere
- recent year(s)
- to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc); to give up on
- sheepskin
- diligent; industrious (in one's studies); to study hard; to make great effort
- 淡水 Dàn shǔi: 淡水 Dan4 shui3: Tamsui or Danshui, district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan淡水 dàn shǔi: 淡水 dan4 shui3: freshwater
- newly hatched bird; fig. inexperienced person; fig. chick (slighting term for young woman); bimbo
- a torment; a trial; tribulation; a cross (to bear); well-tried
- the Crusades; Crusader army; (fig.) crusade; militant campaign for a cause