Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to boss people around (idiom)
- oaken
- chair
- 结实 jiē shi: 结实 jie1 shi5: rugged; sturdy; strong; durable; buff (physique)结实 jiē shí: 结实 jie1 shi2: to bear fruit
- profile; appearance
- 蓝 lán: 蓝 lan2: blue; indigo plant蓝 Lán: 蓝 Lan2: surname Lan
- church member
- style
- to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure)
- microminiature (technology)
- microscope; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- (economics) to reduce; to curtail; to cut back; to tighten; austerity; tightening; crunch
- outer or inner corner of the eye; canthus
- to frown; to knit one's brow
- (in an expression of the form 起到[qi3 dao4] + … + 作用[zuo4 yong4]) to have (a (motivating etc) effect); to play (a (stabilizing etc) role)
- for the time being; tentatively
- considered to be; at last
- steamboat; steamship
- to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
- several times
- nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words; You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
- buttocks; bottom; butt; back part
- to separate and live apart; division of a large family into smaller groups
- luckily; by a fluke
- 嗯 èn: 嗯 en4: (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?嗯 ēn: 嗯 en1: (a groaning sound)嗯 en: 嗯 en5: interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement
- to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc)
- to murder; to assassinate; intentional homicide
- pure; innocent
- to claim; to state; to proclaim; to assert
- can see; can tell
- (idiom) to attack sb by innuendo; to make insinuations
- islander
- stranger; outsider
- vineyard
- Ahab (9th c. BC), King of Israel, son of Omri and husband of Jezebel, prominent figure in 1 Kings 16-22
- mistake; to make a mistake; to blunder; mistaken
- young people; youngster
- to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for; conscientious
- (bound form) extensive; vast; (bound form) outline; general shape; (bound form) to expand; to extend
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need