Vocabulary: 白鲸
- first tone in Mandarin; high, level tone
- to answer; to reply; Reply to: (in email header)
- scoundrel; rogue; bully; villain
- plain and simple; unadorned; simple living; not frivolous
- to fit in; to get on well with others; sociable; to form a mutually supportive group
- to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)
- item (in a program of entertainments); trick (act of mischief); worthwhile result; accomplishment; sth significant but not immediately apparent; sth more than meets the eye
- (of a defect etc) to be of no great matter (idiom); harmless
- nickname
- conclusion; ending
- to raise (one's voice); to overrate; to build up; to stand out; outstanding
- to brag
- firm and substantial; solid
- ill-founded; groundless
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to search for sth; to seek; to quest; to explore
- doctor (as an academic degree); (old) person specialized in a skill or trade; (old) court academician
- dictionary; encyclopedia
- (linguistics) noun; term (name for a concept)
- party; gathering; to meet; to get together
- exchange visits
- matter; item
- to forget
- (idiom) dainty; delicate; exquisite
- gaudy; flashy (but without substance)
- ribbon
- wheelchair
- gout
- senator
- (idiom) to rudely push and pull others; (idiom) to evade responsibility and push it to others
- 乐 lè: 乐 le4: happy; cheerful; to laugh乐 yuè: 乐 yue4: music乐 Lè: 乐 Le4: surname Le乐 Yuè: 乐 Yue4: surname Yue乐 lào: 乐 lao4: used in place names
- nowhere
- classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
- to stand firm
- lower back; (sports) defensive midfielder
- to go and come back; to make a return trip; backwards and forwards (e.g. of piston or pump action); to reciprocate (of machine part)
- to throw down; to fall; to drop and break