Vocabulary: 白鲸
- (name) Ross; Rose; Roth; Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯[Ji1 fu3 Luo2 si1])
- to agree; to consent; to approve
- to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- to conquer; to subdue; to vanquish
- to kill
- fierce; violent; ferocious
- nimble; quick; shrewd
- never
- Richard (name)
- Bermuda
- incoming letter; to send us a letter
- philosophy
- 汇 hùi: 汇 hui4: to remit; to converge (of rivers); to exchange汇 hùi: 汇 hui4: class; collection
- 刊 kān: 刊 kan1: to print; to publish; publication; periodical; to peel with a knife; to carve; to amend刊 kān: 刊 kan1: to peel with a knife; to carve; to amend
- 听 yǐn: 听 yin3: smile (archaic)听 tīng: 听 ting1: to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- New England
- amount; quantity; quantitative; (math.) scalar quantity
- equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- captain (of a boat); skipper
- to breathe
- frequently; often
- to accompany; to follow; to occur together with; concomitant
- hard to endure; unbearable
- odor; scent
- 乌 Wū: 乌 Wu1: abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1 ke4 lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1 zi1 bie2 ke4 si1 tan3] etc; surname Wu乌 wù: 乌 wu4: used in 烏拉|乌拉[wu4 la5]; used in 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4 la5 cao3]乌 wū: 乌 wu1: crow; black
- brief; sketchy; outline; summary; to omit; (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly; plan; strategy; to capture (territory)
- 亚 yà: 亚 ya4: second; next to; inferior; sub-; Taiwan pr. [ya3]亚 Yà: 亚 Ya4: Asia; Asian; Taiwan pr. [Ya3]
- South America
- petticoat
- the implications are profound; the ramifications are huge; (of a decision etc) consequential
- responsibility; duty; liability
- to entrust
- (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim; (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded
- court lady; palace maid; traditional painting of beautiful women
- to know well; to be fully aware of
- fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
- not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter