Vocabulary: 白鲸
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- to arrive; to come
- other; another; separate; separately
- purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- 要 yāo: 要 yao1: (bound form) to demand; to coerce要 yào: 要 yao4: to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important
- to catch; to seize; to capture
- walrus
- tooth; ivory; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- 骨 gū: 骨 gu1: used in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]; used in 骨朵[gu1 duo5]骨 gǔ: 骨 gu3: bone
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
- band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- king
- one's own country
- to catch; to seize; to capture
- best; had better ...; it would be best to ...
- 达 Dá: 达 Da2: surname Da达 dá: 达 da2: to attain; to reach; to amount to; to communicate; eminent
- (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number; (computing) code; (clothing) size; yard (unit of length); (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references); (coll.) to pile up; to stack; classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- fifty
- sixty; 60
- 头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]
- another person; sb else; other people
- 奥 ào: 奥 Ao4: (bound form) Austria (abbr. for 奧地利|奥地利[Ao4 di4 li4]); (bound form) Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克|奥林匹克[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4])奥 ào: 奥 ao4: obscure; mysterious
- a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings
- to dictate; to recount orally
- 德 dé: 德 de2: virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind德 Dé: 德 De2: Germany; German; abbr. for 德國|德国[De2 guo2]
- to put down in writing; to take down notes; transcript; record
- CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini)
- zero
- 年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- however; but; yet
- 东西 dōng xī: 东西 dong1 xi1: east and west东西 dōng xi: 东西 dong1 xi5: thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]
- so long as; provided; if
- to enter; to join; to go into
- awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly
- immediately
- to disappear; to fade away
- (to vanish) without a trace
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- bait