Vocabulary: 白鲸
- handsome; large; long
- thirty; 30
- to write; literary work; book; article; writings; CL:部[bu4]
- clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable; to understand; to realize
- (name) Brown; Blang ethnic group
- sperm whale; cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus)
- (name) Spencer
- the wording and purport of what one writes
- pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆[ta3 po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart
- 卢 Lú: 卢 Lu2: surname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lu2 sen1 bao3]卢 lú: 卢 lu2: (old) rice vessel; black; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy
- 现代 xiàn dài: 现代 xian4 dai4: modern times; modern age; modern era现代 Xiàn dài: 现代 Xian4 dai4: Hyundai, South Korean company
- flail
- heavy; hard; serious; critical
- tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
- to threaten; to menace
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- 侧 cè: 侧 ce4: the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side侧 zhāi: 侧 zhai1: lean on one side
- to insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose
- 着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply
- to hit with a piercing blow
- to expose; to show; also pr. [lou4 chu1]
- 枪 qiāng: 枪 qiang1: gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3],桿|杆[gan3],條|条[tiao2],枝[zhi1]; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots枪 Qiāng: 枪 Qiang1: surname Qiang枪 qiāng: 枪 qiang1: rifle; spear
- fertile; rich; to irrigate; to wash (of river)
- 勒 lè: 勒 le4: (literary) bridle; halter; headstall; to rein in; to compel; to force; (literary) to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc); (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4 ke4 si1])勒 lēi: 勒 lei1: to strap tightly; to bind
- 夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer
- island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]
- to fight; fight; war; battle
- opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- skill
- to create; to bring about; to produce; to set (a record)
- 出来 chū lái: 出来 chu1 lai2: to come out; to appear; to arise出来 chu lai: 出来 chu5 lai5: (after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)
- (loanword) leviathan
- federal; federation; commonwealth; federal union; federal state; union
- actually; in fact; really
- merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- man-made; artificial; synthetic
- Hobbs (name)
- start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]
- silly; stupid
- Al-Mansur; Abu Jafar al Mansur (712-775), second Abassid caliph
- 嚼 jiào: 嚼 jiao4: used in 倒嚼[dao3 jiao4]嚼 jiáo: 嚼 jiao2: to chew; also pr. [jue2]
- as if; to seem like
- small; tiny; few; young
- herring
- course; process
- luck; to create the universe; god (as the creator of all things); the Creator