Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort
- to acquire; to get; to obtain
- position; place; seat; CL:個|个[ge4]
- workday; working day; weekday
- 关 guān: 关 guan1: mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve关 Guān: 关 Guan1: surname Guan
- lath
- plaster; mortar
- house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- to tie up
- sales counter; front desk; bar; (of financial trading, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)
- 钉 dìng: 钉 ding4: to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points; to nail; to pin; to staple; to sew on钉 dīng: 钉 ding1: nail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)
- wooden bench or stool; CL:張|张[zhang1],條|条[tiao2]
- 困 kùn: 困 kun4: to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitute困 kùn: 困 kun4: sleepy; tired
- writing desk; official record
- one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- plain; open country
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed
- 哪 na: 哪 na5: (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")哪 nǎ: 哪 na3: how; which哪 né: 哪 ne2: used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]哪 něi: 哪 nei3: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
- directly
- direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for
- to dive (into water); (sports) diving; to commit suicide by jumping into water; (fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- end; extremity; limit
- to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content
- distant place
- shady
- depot; storehouse; warehouse
- over there; yonder
- to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xian2 fan4], criminal suspect
- not enough; insufficient; inadequate
- (followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must
- to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water
- all; without exception
- inland; interior
- alley
- lane; alley; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- street; main street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- boulevard; avenue
- east, south, west and north; all directions
- 混 hún: 混 hun2: Taiwan pr. [hun4]混 hùn: 混 hun4: to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless