Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- 闷 mēn: 闷 men1: stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly闷 mèn: 闷 men4: bored; depressed; melancholy; sealed; airtight; tightly closed
- hindbrain; back of the head
- rice straw
- muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness
- convict; prisoner; criminal
- to fall to the ground
- motionless
- in a great rush; in a flurry
- to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on
- to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward
- breath
- to cry out in fear
- dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined
- might; formidable power
- secretly; inwardly
- to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed
- calm; unperturbed; cool
- to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得[de2]) unbearably; terribly
- 鸟 diǎo: 鸟 diao3: penis鸟 niǎo: 鸟 niao3: bird; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2]; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamn
- to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
- to serve in the army; to be a soldier
- 当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- to be alarmed; to be frightened
- to sift chaff; (fig.) to shake all over
- with one's own hands; personally
- to commit sb for trial; to bring sb for interrogation
- extraordinarily brave; heroic
- to open (one's eyes) wide; to stare at; to glare at
- 怕 Pà: 怕 Pa4: surname Pa怕 pà: 怕 pa4: to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps
- at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
- slow; unhurried; sluggish; gradual; not tense; relaxed; to postpone; to defer; to stall; to stave off; to revive; to recuperate
- to beat a drum; to play a drum; (fig.) to feel nervous
- recently; soon; nearest
- member of another religion; heathen; pagan; heretic; apostate
- noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke
- 凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: terrible; fearful凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: vicious; fierce; ominous; inauspicious; famine
- (coll.) maybe; perhaps
- 同 tóng: 同 tong2: like; same; similar; together; alike; with同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth
- severe; strict