Vocabulary: 白鲸
- Japan
- fuel tank
- small scale; small size
- old-fashioned; old-school
- steady; earnest; staid
- all year round; for years on end; average year
- lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment; all is quiet; a dead calm (at sea)
- Egypt
- France
- soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]; (coll.) bandit
- somewhere
- Cologne, Germany; Colón, Panama
- vertebra; backbone
- to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out
- (literary) bloodbath; carnage
- Canterbury
- pilgrim
- to prostrate oneself in worship (idiom); (fig.) to worship; to bow down to
- to pave (with paving stones); to lay a road; (fig.) to lay the groundwork (for sth); to give a present to sb to ensure success
- slab; flagstone; slate
- antique
- half of sth
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to conduct; to command; to direct; conductor (of an orchestra); CL:個|个[ge4]
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- shareholder; stockholder
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- 任 Rén: 任 Ren2: surname Ren任 rèn: 任 ren4: to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
- period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- initial; original; originally; at first
- to carve; to engrave; carving
- shield; pretext; excuse
- attire; clothing
- Ethiopia
- glossy; lustrous; sleek
- spoils of war
- nail; snag; saboteur
- sharp (e.g. knife blade); incisive; to the point