Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to engrave
- lawful; legitimate; legal
- legislation; statute
- a huge amount (of books and papers)
- to annotate; to add a comment; explanatory note; annotation
- life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me
- target; aim; objective; what one hopes to gain
- military force
- fist; (of a product, service, project etc) flagship; key; core
- to have the final say; to be the one in charge
- morality; righteousness and justice
- to demand payment; to extort; to trace; to seek; to pursue; to explore
- to invade and occupy (territory)
- to file a lawsuit; to sue; to dispute
- case; instance; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3]
- complainant; plaintiff
- 北海 Běi Hǎi: 北海 Bei3 Hai3: North Sea (in Europe); historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖[Bei4 jia1 er3 Hu2], Russia北海 Běi hǎi: 北海 Bei3 hai3: see 北海公園|北海公园[Bei3 hai3 Gong1 yuan2]; see 北海市[Bei3 hai3 Shi4]
- to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to; to have no choice; must
- (law) the defendant; the accused
- to appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)
- to detain sb; to hold sb against their will; to withhold (property, documents, funds etc)
- to compensate
- Lord (UK hereditary nobility); UK life peer
- debate; argument; to argue over; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]
- quick-witted; resourceful
- adultery; to commit adultery
- (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
- to curb; to put a stop to; to stop; to check; to limit
- to fail to eventuate; (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing
- to regret; to feel remorse
- (idiom) to illegally take possession of; to appropriate
- the bride's side (of a wedding); of the bride's party
- defender; defending counsel
- to lump together; to treat along with all the others
- long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job
- to hear (news); to listen to
- to reply (to an accusation); to defend one's dissertation
- judgment (by a court of law); to pass judgment on; to sentence
- (bound form) to differentiate; to distinguish; (bound form) clearly (different); to judge; to decide; to grade; (of a judge) to sentence