Vocabulary: 白鲸
- power
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- to select the best
- male; man (Cantonese)
- at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt; flexible; to accept circumstances with good will
- aloof; indifferent; unconcerned
- to pursue; to be after; to hunt down
- to employ; to hire; to rent
- adept; skilled
- amiable; easygoing
- to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly)
- (idiom) carefree; without worries
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- rather; quite
- to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen
- cart driver; coachman
- lit. a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom); fig. (at the) critical; perilous (moment)
- to show no quarter; ruthless; relentless
- 抡 lūn: 抡 lun1: to swing (one's arms, a heavy object); to wave (a sword, one's fists); to fling (money)抡 lún: 抡 lun2: to select
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- old-fashioned; out of date; to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon
- comfortable armchair; easy chair; rocking chair
- sudden idea; flash of thought
- broker; agent
- wrapping cloth; a bundle wrapped in cloth; load; weight; burden; funny part; punchline
- to bow; personally
- free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered; outside the reach of the law (of criminal); at large
- to bear; to carry on one's back; to shoulder
- heavy burden; difficult task; great responsibility
- reverent
- face (body part)
- 余 Yú: 余 Yu2: surname Yu余 yú: 余 yu2: (literary) I; me余 yú: 余 yu2: extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me
- to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)
- continuous; unceasing
- to count; reckoning
- nameless; obscure
- cholera