Vocabulary: 白鲸
- 长牙 zhǎng yá: 长牙 zhang3 ya2: to grow teeth; to teethe; growing teeth长牙 cháng yá: 长牙 chang2 ya2: tusk
- muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)
- to produce (by natural growth, or by manufacture, mining etc); to yield; to turn out; produce; products
- inferior quality; substandard; low-grade
- slab; board; plank; CL:張|张[zhang1],塊|块[kuai4]
- ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice
- domain; territory under one's control; foundation of a building; base of operations; crust of earth
- marine; produced in sea
- rudder; helm of a ship
- to install; to erect; to fix; to mount; installation
- cross road; cross-shaped; crucifix; the character ten
- rotating disk; wheel; rotor; cycle of reincarnation in Buddhism
- (dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
- passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
- old enemy
- to steer (a ship)
- Tatar (person)
- fine horse; steed
- sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected
- to wield (political etc) power; be in power
- to recommend oneself (for a job)
- tent; CL:頂|顶[ding3],座[zuo4]
- shack; shed; CL:間|间[jian1]
- as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc
- to build (esp. with simple materials); to knock together (a temporary shed); to rig up
- to leave harbor; departure (at airport)
- middle part; central section; central region
- cartilage
- 支 Zhī: 支 Zhi1: surname Zhi支 zhī: 支 zhi1: to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
- to constrict; to draw tight; to gather (one's thoughts); to bring to a close; to pack (for a journey)
- (bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile; classifier for bunches, clusters, piles etc
- fur; down (soft fur); villi capillary (in the small intestine)
- fiber; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- around; from beginning to end; all around; front and rear
- headman (of primitive people); tribal chief; used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
- triangle
- to open one's mouth; to start to talk
- toward; to face; to open onto; to turn towards; orientation; exposure; Qibla (Islam)
- obvious at a glance (idiom)
- noon; midday; CL:個|个[ge4]