Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to darn (clothing); to sew and mend
- 咳 ké: 咳 ke2: cough咳 hāi: 咳 hai1: sound of sighing; (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh; damn; wow
- throat; voice; CL:把[ba3]
- 落空 là kòng: 落空 la4 kong4: to omit; to neglect (to do sth); to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by落空 lào kōng: 落空 lao4 kong1: to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless落空 lùo kōng: 落空 luo4 kong1: to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
- decreed by fate (idiom); destined; fated
- to talk (with sb); to have a conversation; talk; conversation; CL:次[ci4]
- to lie; to crouch
- gift; innate skill
- 瞭 liǎo: 瞭 liao3: (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly瞭 liào: 瞭 liao4: to watch from a height or distance
- this mortal flesh
- charming eyes; coquettish glances
- straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns
- farad, SI unit of electrical capacitance (loanword)
- see 水靈|水灵[shui3 ling2]
- Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)
- evening party; CL:個|个[ge4]
- speedboat; motor launch
- triangular flag; pennant
- romance; love (romantic); CL:份[fen4]
- (idiom) fleeting; transitory
- soon after; shortly
- to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
- to stroll; to visit
- to lean on; to rely upon
- all different; each unto his own
- all speaking together; in chorus
- to part forever; eternal parting (i.e. death)
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- shore; seaside
- to be discouraged
- 乙 yǐ: 乙 yi3: second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; second in order; letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]); ethyl; bent; winding; radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5); ancient Chinese compass point: 105°乙 zhé: 乙 zhe2: turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折[zhe2]
- to sound a bell; (of a clock) to chime
- labor contractor; gangmaster
- under; the underside; below
- intoxicated
- erhua form of 哥們|哥们[ge1 men5]
- dead drunk; completely drunk
- to sing a song