Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to send one's greetings; to send one's best regards; to devote attention to
- to steal away; to beat it
- path; route; method; ways and means
- rail; railroad track; CL:根[gen1]
- trough; manger; groove; channel; (Tw) (computing) hard drive
- to dash (run fast); to rush; to dart
- canyon; gill; ravine
- shoals; rapids; treacherous section of a river
- acute pain; sharp pain; twinge; stab; pang
- unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed
- to reach (an agreement); to accomplish
- cable; hawser; mooring rope
- to cut off; to sever
- (Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats
- disaster; catastrophe
- the whole world; worldwide; global
- goldfish
- fish tank; fishbowl; aquarium
- (of a pendulum) to stop swinging; (of work, production, activities etc) to come to a halt; to be suspended; to be canceled; shutdown; (sports) lockout
- hammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance); to strike with a hammer
- to start (a machine); (fig.) to set in motion; to launch (an operation); to activate (a plan)
- mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate
- offspring of an animal; brat; bastard
- to indulge in debauchery
- portrayal
- to be eager to give sth a try (idiom)
- stagnant water; backwater
- (onom.) gurgling sound of flowing water
- to pursue relentlessly
- to have one's hair stand on end (idiom); to feel one's blood run cold
- still; calm; quiet; not moving
- to eat; to take food
- to drive off; to dispel; to expel
- (literary) (of light, shadows) flickering; dancing
- (bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"