Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure; to fall at the last hurdle; snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
- critical; desperate (situation)
- to question; to ask; to raise a question
- all; without exception
- 关 Guān: 关 Guan1: surname Guan关 guān: 关 guan1: mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve
- to chat; to gossip
- 闲暇 xián xiá: 闲暇 xian2 xia2: leisure; free time; unoccupied; not in use闲暇 xián xiá: 闲暇 xian2 xia2: leisure
- to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)
- to make heavier; to emphasize; (of an illness etc) to become more serious; to aggravate (a bad situation); to increase (a burden, punishment etc)
- to recommend; to introduce (from outside)
- sense; meaning; significance; importance; CL:個|个[ge4]
- once more; once again
- to have an urge; to be impetuous; impulse; urge
- solution; method to settle an issue
- 尽 jǐn: 尽 jin3: to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to尽 jìn: 尽 jin4: to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom); to take great pains; to be very patient
- inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity
- to reflect on; to ponder over
- escaped criminal; fugitive from the law
- to be related; to be connected; relationship; connection
- to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
- ambition; wild schemes; careerism
- young people; youngster
- capable; competent
- to exert all one's force; all-out effort; CL:股[gu3]
- assistant
- subordinate; underling
- chess piece; CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1]; (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)
- accomplishment; success; achievement; CL:個|个[ge4]; to achieve (a result); to create; to bring about
- major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- desire; longing; appetite; craving
- to cover up (a shortcoming); to screen off; to hide; to conceal
- to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct
- complete picture; full view
- tiny; minute; fine; subtle; sensitive (instruments)
- tree leaves
- forest; CL:片[pian4]
- to work; to handle matters; to have a job
- shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation
- margin; leeway
- too far is as bad as not enough (idiom, from the Analects)