Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to have a tacit understanding
- one's elders; older generation
- to fight; to scuffle; to come to blows; CL:場|场[chang2]
- to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) hypothesis
- Isle of Man, British Isles; Isle of Mann
- reasoning; inference; to infer; to deduce
- to negate; to deny; to reject; negative (answer); negation
- easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly
- supernatural
- insight
- to die of old age; to die in one's bed at a ripe old age; (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
- to spread; to lay out; to apply (powder, ointment etc); sufficient (to cover); enough
- from head to foot
- birthmark
- to give; to impose; to apply
- to retort; to refute
- the Way of the Hegemon; abbr. for 霸王之道; despotic rule; rule by might; evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道; overbearing; tyranny; (of liquor, medicine etc) strong; potent
- to polish; to burnish; to shine
- (idiom) astounded; flabbergasted; taken aback
- to be right next to; to lean closely against
- lowering and raising of the head; (fig.) small move; pitch (position angle)
- to gaze at; to stare fixedly at
- stubborn; obstinate; unbending
- tiny; minute; fine; subtle; sensitive (instruments)
- attitude; posture; stance
- eyelid
- to ravage; to ruin
- Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督[Ji1 li4 si1 du1] or 基利士督[Ji1 li4 shi4 du1])
- to suffer a calamity; to suffer (e.g. under torture); distress
- sovereign king
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- open; overt; public; to make public; to release
- to inspect; an investigation
- to return (an item); to send back; to go back
- that day; the other day
- to bore a hole; to drill; drilled hole
- deathly stillness