Vocabulary: 白鲸
- gibbet; hanging post
- impression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory
- back of the neck; nape
- omen; sign (of sth yet to occur); prior indication; to foreshadow
- gravestone; tombstone
- to open (one's eyes) wide; to stare at; to glare at
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush
- to grieve; to mourn; deep sorrow; grief
- stoop; parvis; portico; patio; veranda
- freckles
- to scold
- muscles and bones; physique; strength; courage
- lady; madam; Mrs.; CL:位[wei4]
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
- full powers; total authority; plenipotentiary powers
- to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order
- qualified; competent (professionally); to be up to a task
- stubble (crop residue); stubble (hair growth); classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop; sth just said or mentioned
- to recommend; to introduce (from outside)
- 摆 bǎi: 摆 bai3: to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum摆 bǎi: 摆 bai3: hem (at the bottom of a garment)
- just now; a moment ago
- to dine; to have one's meal
- married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- winter
- to hold a reception; to offer hospitality; to entertain (guests); to serve (customers)
- sticky
- urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
- the latter
- doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- hasty; hurried
- kitchen; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to float (in the air); to flutter; to waft; complacent; frivolous; weak; shaky; wobbly
- steam
- foreground; vista; (future) prospects; perspective
- (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good; anything but reassuring
- mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake; CL:個|个[ge4]
- piping hot