Vocabulary: 白鲸
- allowance
- (literary) dark
- red; scarlet; bare; naked
- trouser leg
- (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
- tea; tea plant; CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
- old friend; (slang) period; menstruation
- learning; knowledge; scholarship; a body of specialized knowledge (CL:門|门[men2]); (fig.) any activity that demands expertise, skill or experience (e.g. gathering forensic evidence, selecting clothing, managing relationships)
- master; qualified worker; respectful form of address for older men; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- to confiscate; to seize
- in fear and trepidation (idiom); in reverence before your majesty (court formula of humility)
- to scratch; to thwart; to yield
- pathetic; pitiful
- unhelpful; useless
- to have a heart of stone; hard-hearted; unfeeling
- to summon one's courage
- twists and turns; vicissitude; complication; difficulty; effort; CL:番[fan1]
- by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
- my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife
- to treat an illness
- one-quarter
- adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors
- Wellington, capital of New Zealand (Tw); Wellington (name); Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1851)
- to request earnestly
- to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc)
- cannot bear or stand; be unequal to; very; extremely
- to blackmail; to extort
- poor people; the poor
- (of one's skills, appearance etc) not to have deteriorated a bit; to be as (good, vigorous etc) as ever
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- to be; thus; so; therefore; then; only; thereupon
- to stand out; outstanding
- to interpret; to comment and explain; to annotate; to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role); to decode; interpretation; annotation
- pocket money; allowance; spending money
- High Court
- wardrobe
- wise and farsighted
- mermaid
- moral (of a story); lesson to be learned; implication; message; import; metaphorical meaning
- resemblance; similarity