The reporter rushed to the scene, road-weary and dusty.
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Attested in the Yuan zaju 《柳毅传书》: '你索是远路风尘的故人' — 'you are surely a long-road, travel-dust old friend'. 风尘 ('wind-dust') is a classical metonymy for travel hardship.
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风尘 (wind and dust) = the road itself. 仆仆 mimics weariness — think of someone 'plodding and plodding'. 'Wind-and-dust plodding' = arriving exhausted.
