Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- house; house with a courtyard
- main line (of communication); main thread (of a plotline or concept); central theme
- with dishevelled hair (idiom); with one's hair down
- time available
- to begin; to open; to start; beginning of an event
- appetizer; small side dish; easy job; piece of cake; see also 小菜一碟[xiao3 cai4 yi1 die2]
- Medusa (monster of Greek mythology)
- guttural sound; (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
- (idiom) to have never met; to be complete strangers
- crystal
- contact person
- lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom); to hit it off; to click together; to chime in easily
- several years; many years
- gone forever (idiom)
- walled-in path; paved pathway; canopied passageway; corridor; tunnel
- cow horn
- to double; to redouble; to increase many times over; to multiply by a factor; multiplication
- sieve; CL:面[mian4]
- to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting; (fig.) to snuff out
- blender; food mixer
- to stir; to agitate
- (literary) inferior horse
- ray
- to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate; to disparage; to censure; to depreciate
- faucet; tap; bicycle handlebar; chief; boss (esp. of a gang); (referring to a company) leader; front-runner; figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat 龍船|龙船[long2 chuan2]
- hoof; (old) wench; hussy
- to instigate; to incite; to abet
- (fig.) lair; den; stronghold (esp. of criminals or hostile forces)
- profit; to obtain benefits; benefits obtained
- chessboard