Vocabulary: 白鲸
- netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld; Hades
- feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally)
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
- battle array; disposition of forces; situation; circumstance
- to lower; to decrease; to reduce; to subtract; to diminish
- to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge
- mist
- to scatter; to disperse; to distribute
- doom; death; desperately
- (literary) strength and direction of the wind
- to accelerate; to speed up; to expedite
- the critical moment; life and death crisis
- critical; crucial; vital
- fog; mist; vapor
- (onom.) rumbling; rolling
- to spin; to whirl around
- (onom.) whooshing; swishing; rustle of skirts
- talus slide; to crumble (of scree slope); to collapse; landslide
- to shake; to rock
- in a difficult situation; to cut a sorry figure; scoundrel! (derog.)
- (idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
- to float (in the air etc); suspension
- to charge forward
- raging flames
- tiger's den; dangerous place; the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
- to cry out; to shout
- propeller; propulsion unit; thruster
- to act as if; to treat sth as if it were
- to save a life; life-saving
- lantern
- flagpole
- to pass the provincial level imperial examination
- weak; faint; feeble
- drenched; wet through