Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment
- see 天南地北[tian1 nan2 di4 bei3]
- to go on holidays; to spend one's vacation
- Persian Gulf
- Bay of Bengal
- the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
- (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry; (fig.) dull; dry; boring; (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure
- easterly wind; spring breeze; (fig.) revolutionary momentum; favorable circumstances
- Arabian; Arabic; Arab
- North Africa
- zone; CL:個|个[ge4]
- airborne sand and dust
- meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere; going around in circles
- to extend (everywhere)
- Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
- (idiom) bustling with activity
- recognition; to recognize
- Islam
- fan; CL:把[ba3]
- to pant; to gasp for breath
- weak; in poor health
- to consume; to use up; to deplete; to expend; (old) news; mail; message
- to hold firmly, not let go
- bloody; blood-soaked; gory; grisly; cruel; brutal; harsh; grim; bitter
- fingernail
- pitfall; trap; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect
- hollow of the palm
- to rove around; to run around in circles; to walk back and forth
- to throb; to pulse; to bounce; to jiggle; to jump about
- (geology) rift valley
- to get angry; to burn with rage
- to inhibit; to keep down; to suppress
- weak; feeble; flabby
- not at all; simply (can) not
- to compromise; to reach terms; a compromise