Vocabulary: 白鲸
- kingdom; realm
- meet unexpectedly
- (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
- to raise; to increase
- life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
- 纪 Jǐ: 纪 Ji3: surname Ji; also pr. [Ji4]纪 jì: 纪 ji4: order; discipline; age; era; period; to chronicle
- same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- proportion; scale
- books; works
- book format based on how a full printing sheet is cut or folded (often abbreviated to 開|开[kai1] after a numeral, e.g. 16-kai and 32-kai, roughly A4 and A5 respectively)
- identical; same
- 辛 Xīn: 辛 Xin1: surname Xin辛 xīn: 辛 xin1: (of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
- social class
- 证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: to admonish证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm
- word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical term); expression
- literal; typeface
- to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations
- official post
- to cut down; to reduce; to lower
- subordinate; underling
- good; favorable; well; fine
- on night duty
- politics; political
- to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota); regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- the former (i.e. the one mentioned first)
- the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
- residence; dwelling
- back section
- to eat a meal
- to last; to take (time); period; diachronic