Vocabulary: 白鲸
- British person; British people
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible?
- hereby; from this
- to lead to
- India
- navigation route (esp. shipping route or air route)
- despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating
- main; principal; major; primary
- target; goal; objective; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about
- unexpected; accident; mishap; CL:個|个[ge4]
- often; frequently
- to come and go; to roam about (mostly unseen); (of a ghost) to haunt (a place); (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets); (of the sun) to rise and set
- 麦 Mài: 麦 Mai4: surname Mai麦 mài: 麦 mai4: wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麥克風|麦克风[mai4 ke4 feng1])
- 卡 kǎ: 卡 ka3: to stop; to block; (computing) (coll.) slow; (loanword) card; CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4]; truck (from "car"); calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]); cassette卡 qiǎ: 卡 qia3: to block; to be stuck; to be wedged; customs station; a clip; a fastener; a checkpost; Taiwan pr. [ka3]
- thing; object
- each other; mutually; mutual
- to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition
- ball; sphere; globe; CL:個|个[ge4]; ball game; match; CL:場|场[chang3]
- once more; once again
- nowadays; now
- already; since; both... (and...)
- indirect
- same; equal; similar; similarly; also; too
- 西北 Xī běi: 西北 Xi1 bei3: Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang)西北 xī běi: 西北 xi1 bei3: northwest
- waterway; ship channel
- 新 Xīn: 新 Xin1: abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1 jiang1]; abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1]; surname Xin新 xīn: 新 xin1: new; newly; meso- (chemistry)
- trail; clues; thread (of a story)
- to choose; to pick; to select; to elect
- (bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- manuscript; script
- above
- to meet
- to approximate; to be similar
- outward appearance
- to move (to pity); arousing (sympathy); touching
- sail
- to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name)
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
- root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- to watch from a height or distance; to keep a lookout
- eager; impatient
- to run one's eyes over; to sweep one's eyes over