Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- stature; build (height and weight); figure
- rather; quite
- tall; lofty; towering
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- member of religious order; frater
- chang pao (traditional Chinese men's robe); gown; robe; CL:件[jian4]
- ash-colored
- beard; CL:根[gen1],綹|绺[liu3]
- silk thread (for sewing); silk yarn (for weaving)
- to be in a tangle; to nag
- limited; finite
- five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳); facial features
- lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom); fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
- dull; lifeless; sluggish
- to give; to deliver; to hand over
- weakly and without strength (idiom); dispirited
- (of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound; whine; moan; wail
- as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course; inevitable and right
- to tremble; to shake out; to reveal; to make it in the world
- not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end; embarrassed and at a complete loss
- (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable
- to order; to command; an order; a command; an instruction
- to explain; to justify; to defend (a point of view etc); to provide an explanation; to try to defend oneself
- it seems; it looks as if
- conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort
- bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张[zhang1]); bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc); frame; chassis; classifier for blankets, quilts etc
- brothel; whorehouse
- slave
- trafficker; dealer; monger; peddler
- to enrich; rich; plentiful; abundant
- way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); CL:種|种[zhong3]
- unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是[shi4]) in particular
- just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- manpower; staff; human hand
- to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task; CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- to repay a debt in kind or by labor
- disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration
- to clutch; to grab; to capture
- to relax; to slacken; to loosen