Vocabulary: 白鲸
- 新建 Xīn jiàn: 新建 Xin1 jian4: see 新建區|新建区[Xin1 jian4 Qu1]新建 xīn jiàn: 新建 xin1 jian4: new construction; newly built
- California
- terrain; topography relief
- low-lying
- 激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge; also written 激盪|激荡
- pastoral deity; shepherd god (esp. Pan in Greek mythology)
- sweetness
- leisurely; sincerely
- sorption (generic term for absorption, adsorption, diffusion, precipitation etc)
- delta (geography)
- vascular (made up of vessels)
- in one's sleep
- one or two; a few; a little; just a bit
- Perth, capital of Western Australia; also written 帕斯
- filth; grime; stain; dirty; filthy
- summertime
- equivalent to 就可以; can then (do sth); can immediately (do sth); (do sth) and that will suffice
- to provide assistance; to aid
- to transform; to reform; to remodel; to remold
- to make (by hammering, chipping etc); to forge (silverware, metal implements etc)
- to pound; to rap
- gait; tread
- crooked; not upright; diverging from straight line; improper; dishonest
- to get to the heart of the matter
- to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
- the curtain drops; the end of the show
- to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon
- to be late; to arrive slowly; to be slow in the coming
- family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless
- disaster
- consummate; exquisite
- to be known far and wide; to be well-known
- lit. to show the wolf into the house (idiom); fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
- thief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive; (bound form) evil; wicked; sly; shifty; devious; (literary) to harm; to injure; (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)
- (idiom) ruined in a short time (esp. of sth that took a long time or great effort to achieve)
- basement; cellar
- aged
- lullaby
- immediately; without a moment's hesitation; with alacrity; firing from the hip
- adversity; predicament