Vocabulary: 白鲸
- 朱 Zhū: 朱 Zhu1: surname Zhu朱 zhū: 朱 zhu1: vermilion朱 zhū: 朱 zhu1: (bound form) cinnabar
- 巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
- to lift up; to hold high
- one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with); subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself); belonging to; affiliated; under one's command
- pup; puppy
- lily; fig. pure and spotless person; virgin
- stalk; stem; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- force of impact or thrust
- (idiom) one after another; in quick succession
- sports such as ping-pong and badminton that use small balls; see also 大球[da4 qiu2]
- to detest; to loathe; to abhor
- pale and feeble; powerless
- Freemasonry
- what one acquires; one's gains
- height (of a person); stature; (fig.) reputation; standing
- Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
- peninsula
- Myanmar (or Burma)
- border area; borderland; frontier; frontier region
- Java (island of Indonesia)
- Bari (Puglia, Italy)
- longitudinal; vertical
- Australia
- to block; to obstruct; to intercept; to interdict
- scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
- to divide; to separate; partition
- mountain pass
- to penetrate; to pierce; to see clearly; to have an insight into
- to enter and exit; to go in and out; inflow and outflow (of goods, vehicles, funds etc)
- Strait of Malacca
- (of terrain) mountainous; rugged; (of a situation) precarious; daunting
- populous and affluent
- geography
- to prevent; to take precautions against; to protect; to guard against; precautionary; prophylactic
- to defend; to protect (against)
- day and night; round-the-clock
- to transport; to carry (goods, materials or people)
- etiquette; ceremony
- to seek after; to strive for
- Malaya; Malaysia
- to be shaded or concealed by foliage; to conceal; hidden; covert; shade (of a tree)