Vocabulary: 白鲸
- silkworm
- (of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk
- burial clothes
- unexpectedly; suddenly; at unawares; off guard; against expectations
- to perform music; to play a tune
- woodpecker
- clown
- sentence-final particle similar to 了[le5], but carrying a tone of approval
- close to death; life-threatening (illness)
- philosophic theory; philosophy
- to climb (of climbing plants); to creep; to cling on to; fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful); social climbing
- to swell; tympanites
- to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract
- to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
- to provide support; to come to the rescue
- fire beacon (to give alarm)
- free; vacant; unoccupied
- repeatedly; time and time again
- dawn; daybreak; to know; to let sb know; to make explicit
- wristwatch; CL:塊|块[kuai4],隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
- busy season; peak period; see also 淡季[dan4 ji4]
- rent
- soul of the deceased; departed spirit
- to lose touch with; missing; scattered; separated from
- fortunately
- constrained; restricted; forced to; under pressure to do sth
- paternal love
- rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you