Vocabulary: 白鲸
- jar; pitcher; pot
- salted vegetables; pickles
- meals
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- catering
- goose; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- writing brush; CL:枝[zhi1],管[guan3]
- flannel (loanword); Taiwan pr. [fa4 lan2 rong2]
- to protect
- to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate
- benevolent; charitable
- (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt
- group; organization; team; CL:個|个[ge4]
- nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
- most beloved
- older brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- to console; to comfort
- exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
- flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀圓|银圆; silver dollar
- fabulous; superb; excellent
- female; woman; daughter
- long handle; stem
- spoon; ladle; CL:把[ba3]; abbr. for 公勺[gong1 shao2], centiliter (unit of volume)
- to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- list of items
- mark; symbol; notation; seal
- at intervals of; every (so often)
- to limp; to hobble
- on top of; at the summit
- hopeful; promising
- matters; arrangements
- to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word
- dictator; autocrat
- before that; beforehand; previously
- muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness
- to try; to make an attempt; to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
- to conceal; to hide (a taboo subject); to cover up the truth
- to try hard to; to strive to
- tomorrow
- almost; nearly; close to