Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
- Annie (name)
- ring (any circular object); (math.) annulus; (Tw) traffic circle; rotary
- fashion; fad; fashionable
- beautiful woman
- to take shelter from the rain
- to stretch taut; to open (an umbrella); to hold (a bag etc) open; to prop open
- pipe organ (musical instrument)
- root of chord
- carpet; rug
- Turkey
- emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain
- generally speaking; to sum up; in summary; in short
- root; source; origin
- lower lip
- to pass into oblivion
- to meditate; meditation
- tranquil and calm; indifferent
- to envelop; to wrap; to enclose
- to recount; to tell of; to relate; (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)
- asceticism
- Baruch or Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), rationalist philosopher
- white hair (of animals); see also 白髮|白发[bai2 fa4]
- mallet; pestle; beetle (for wedging or ramming)
- physiologist
- to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc)
- false; phony; sham
- a boom (i.e. transverse beam for hanging objects)
- skull; cranium
- to contain; to embody; to include
- (idiom) (usu. of sth abstract: an alliance, a conviction etc) unbreakable; rock-solid
- to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story; (math.) sheaf; classifier for layers
- horse's hoof; horseshoe; Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)