Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to place great importance on; to treasure
- composition; ingredient; element; component; one's social status
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- good and honest; kindhearted
- motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful
- 成功 Chéng gōng: 成功 Cheng2 gong1: Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan成功 chéng gōng: 成功 cheng2 gong1: to succeed; success; successful; fruitful
- to indicate; to point out
- fortunate; lucky; good fortune; luck
- to protest; protest
- to agree tacitly; tacit approval; default (setting)
- determination; resolution; determined; firm and resolute; to make up one's mind; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to do at all costs; to make an all-out effort
- (idiom) to adopt a blitzkrieg strategy; to resolve sth in the shortest time possible
- trifle; trivial matter; CL:點|点[dian3]
- at dawn; at first light; first thing in the morning
- to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room; building; to give alms (to a monk)
- 节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)
- Ramadan (Islam)
- to fast; to abstain from eating; to forbid the eating of (certain foods); a fast
- to be shamed; to be humiliated
- to grasp (often fig.); to control; to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny); to master; to know well; to understand sth well and know how to use it; fluency
- canon; religious rules
- warm; to warm
- to stroll
- to inquire
- (to be done) by (a certain date); lasting (a certain time)
- (bound form) evil spirit; devil; (prefix) supernatural; magical
- a treasure
- 裴 péi: 裴 pei2: (of a garment) long and flowing裴 Péi: 裴 Pei2: surname Pei
- rich; wide; broad
- to get one's name; named (after sth)
- ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
- famous; well-known
- tribe
- dike; Taiwan pr. [ti2]
- to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely; to exterminate
- to pry into or spy on; to snoop; to peep; to poke one's nose into; to peer; to get a glimpse of
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair; CL:個|个[ge4]
- a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- square headed
- 桁 héng: 桁 heng2: pole plate; purlin (cross-beam in roof); ridge-pole桁 háng: 桁 hang2: cangue (stocks to punish criminals)
- the four corners (of a rectangle); the eaves that the four corners of a building