Vocabulary: 白鲸
- 喳 zhā: 喳 zha1: (onom.) chirp, twitter, etc喳 chā: 喳 cha1: used in 喳喳[cha1 cha1] and 喳喳[cha1 cha5]
- mainstay; pillar; prop; backbone
- to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc); to select; to pick out; to borrow money at a time of urgent need
- prospects; future outlook; journey
- to keep a firm grip on; to pay close attention to; to lose no time in (doing sth)
- python; boa
- to stay out of (hot water, trouble, awkward situation etc); to avoid (sb)
- simple-minded; thoughtless; heartless; nitwitted
- reckless; extremely daring
- to pledge; to promise; oath; vow
- to melt; to thaw; to blend; to merge; to be in harmony
- to take pity on sb; compassionate
- history; antecedents; origin
- a tooth for a tooth (retaliation)
- to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)
- relatively speaking; comparatively speaking
- small number; few; minority
- conscious
- specially; intentionally
- a tiny bit; very little; next to nothing (idiom)
- to sow (seeds); to scatter
- air or shipping route
- single; only; sole
- to impel; to carry forward; to push on; to advance; to drive forward
- 遇 Yù: 遇 Yu4: surname Yu遇 yù: 遇 yu4: (bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat; to receive
- to intercommunicate; to interoperate
- to obstruct; to hinder; to block; obstruction; hindrance
- information; news; message
- to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse
- to doubt
- somewhere; some place
- to injure; to harm
- to escape without trace (idiom); to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime); to show a clean pair of heels
- giant creature; huge animal
- crafty; cunning; sly
- premeditated; to plan sth in advance (esp. a crime)
- to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack