Vocabulary: 白鲸
- mood; spirits; interest
- tenacious; hard to defeat
- hundreds; a large number; lit. by the hundreds and thousands
- one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth); biological (parents); birth (parents)
- to tear to shreds
- limb; limbs and trunk; body
- vigorous; exuberant
- limit; extreme boundary
- to work; to handle matters; to have a job
- essential factor; key constituent
- to blockade; to seal off; to lock down
- nothing left (money, food etc); all finished; bright and shiny; radiant; glorious
- (coll.) even if
- unreasonable
- spirituality; mental; nervous; psychogenic
- to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
- brows
- unintentionally; not in the mood to
- to lose; to miss; to fail
- to reveal; to elucidate; to set forth; to articulate; to announce publicly; to promulgate
- to be lost; to be ruined; to perish; to wither away
- to shake; to shock; to stun; shocking; stunning; shock
- joint-stock company
- rogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior
- (of vegetation) withered; (of a person) haggard
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- radiance; glory; brilliant; magnificent
- to radiate all around
- stain; taint
- competitive; eagerly; to vie
- expensive; costly
- to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasize one is innocent or in the clear
- deep in one's heart
- flawless; immaculate; perfect
- characteristic; diagnostic property; distinctive feature; trait
- to lose; to forfeit
- to cover; to mask; to cover up or conceal (the truth etc)
- disgrace; shame; humiliation
- to allow; to permit
- constellation (arch., now 星座); one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology; motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology)