Vocabulary: 白鲸
- lumber; timber
- green jade; bluish green; blue; jade
- firefly; glowworm; lightning bug
- 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse; ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
- convex lens
- (lit. and fig.) focal point; focus
- bare; naked; (fig.) plain; undisguised; unadorned
- brilliance; splendor; magnificence
- color; multicolored
- aspect of the celestial bodies (used for navigation and astrology)
- instrument; apparatus; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- meridian
- usually; habitually; ordinarily; normally
- part; component
- arrogant
- a general or admiral
- skill; ability; capability; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc); to burn (the skin etc); (fig.) (of anger, jealousy etc) to hurt (sb)
- (lit. and fig.) road; path
- to survey; to measure; to conjecture
- ship's position
- good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad
- existing
- to fly or sail direct (to ...)
- material; timber; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)
- Horace, full Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), Roman poet
- to whirl; to turn around quickly
- hoarse; raspy
- charcoal
- to gamble
- to be pregnant; to produce offspring; to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc); fig. replete with (culture etc)
- Bengal; Bangladesh
- to crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)
- thicket; undergrowth