Vocabulary: 白鲸
- penetrating; thorough; incisive
- classical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth
- 易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- (formal) to apply; to carry out; to take action to (do sth) (used before a disyllabic verb, indicating that the action is directed at sth previously mentioned, e.g. 加以說明|加以说明[jia1 yi3 shuo1 ming2]); to apply (restrictions etc); to give (support, consideration etc); (literary) moreover; in addition
- (idiom) to organize by categories; to classify
- to comb; fig. to sort out
- the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- zoological; zoology
- branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge; to ramify; to subdivide
- even if; even though
- to penetrate deeply; thorough
- to investigate; to delve; to probe; to enquire into; to look into
- historian
- extreme
- condition; state; situation
- deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths; incomprehensible; enigmatic and impossible to predict
- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- to penetrate
- veil
- domain; sphere; field; territory; area
- faultless; complete; perfect; to leave nothing to be desired
- to receive a great deal of (respect, criticism, attention etc)
- 松 sōng: 松 song1: pine; CL:棵[ke1]松 Sōng: 松 Song1: surname Song松 sōng: 松 song1: loose; to loosen; to relax; floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling)
- anatomy
- nevertheless; although
- science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational; CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- nonentity; a nobody
- newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; newlywed couple; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
- a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?
- author; writer
- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
- 万 mò: 万 mo4: used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]万 Wàn: 万 Wan4: surname Wan万 wàn: 万 wan4: ten thousand; a great number
- Carl Linnaeus; Carl Linné
- Green or Greene (name)
- 席 Xí: 席 Xi2: surname Xi席 xí: 席 xi2: woven mat; seat; banquet; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc
- Bodø (city in Norway)