Vocabulary: 白鲸
- moonlight
- 明 míng: 明 ming2: bright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]; (of meaning) clear; to understand; next; public or open; wise; generic term for a sacrifice to the gods明 Míng: 明 Ming2: Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming; Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God
- 暗 àn: 暗 an4: dark; to turn dark; secret; hidden; (literary) confused; ignorant暗 àn: 暗 an4: (literary) to close (a door); to eclipse
- the middle stretches of a river; middle level; middle echelon; midstream
- to roam about; to wander without a home
- (chemistry) phosphorus
- Elizabeth (person name)
- Smith (name)
- to pull; to drag; to haul
- length
- (grand) total
- zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- forty; 40
- 六 lìu: 六 liu4: six; 6六 lù: 六 lu4: used in place names
- mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
- in the sky; in the air
- to sway; to swing; to move back and forth; to oscillate
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- voice; sound; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 三 Sān: 三 San1: surname San三 sān: 三 san1: three; 3
- 远 yuàn: 远 yuan4: to distance oneself from (classical)远 yuǎn: 远 yuan3: far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)
- newly
- crazy; mad; madly
- to infuriate; to enrage; to exasperate
- incessant
- to roll; to boil
- head
- environs; surroundings; periphery
- swift; rapidly
- sometimes; now and then
- thorough; thoroughly; complete
- to destroy; to wreck
- to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- interesting; fascinating; amusing
- business; trade; commerce
- angle; (fig.) point of view