Vocabulary: 历史的尘埃
- valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by
- to accept; to take; next; following
- motive power; (fig.) motivation; impetus
- to survive; to keep on living
- 刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao
- floor; ground; surface
- approximately; probably
- pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- corpse; dead body
- to bury
- to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw
- 里 lǐ: 里 li3: lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]里 Lǐ: 里 Li3: Li (surname)里 lǐ: 里 li3: li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- 会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])
- not to stint; to be generous (with praise etc); to be prepared to (pay a fee, give of one's time etc)
- to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly
- clothing; clothing and other personal items
- to appear suddenly; projection; bit sticking out
- to bring to the same level; to even up; to flare out; to flatten out
- to be careful; to take care
- sentinel
- to take a step; to stride
- narrow
- cautious; prudent
- to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote
- just recently; just a moment ago
- mound
- to squat down; to crouch
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
- 向 Xiàng: 向 Xiang4: surname Xiang向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: to tend toward; to guide向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: direction; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- side; adjacent place
- beach; shoal; rapids; CL:片[pian4]; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle
- sewage
- to shift; to move
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- attention
- to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- (pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- ugly
- movement; motion; action; to act; to move
- to control