Vocabulary: 白鲸
- magnificent; precious
- (name) Dylan
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- to be orphaned of one's father
- unable to go to school; an interruption to one's education
- farm
- teacher; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to return
- (idiom) wild and stormy; windy and wet
- all sorts of feelings well up in one's heart
- firmly; resolutely; without hesitation
- lit. dazzling with paper and gold (idiom); fig. indulging in a life of luxury
- royalty (on books)
- to leave home to make one's way in the world; to leave the life one knows to seek success
- all the more; even more; further
- qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony; marital harmony
- conflagration; large fire; CL:場|场[chang2]
- study (room); studio; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to treasure; to be very fond of
- depressed; despondent; gloomy
- heavy drinking; to get drunk; to drink to excess
- domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力[jia1 ting2 bao4 li4])
- insane asylum; mental hospital
- 丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged
- muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles; a total mess
- poetry anthology
- at one's own expense; self-funded
- poverty compounded by ill health (idiom)
- to leave one's mortal frame (idiom); to die
- Matsuo (Japanese surname and place name)
- Japanese banana (Musa basjoo)
- variable; changeable; fickle; impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya); ghost taking away the soul after death; to pass away; to die
- to tease; to play tricks on
- (lit. and fig.) overnight
- 荆 jīng: 荆 jing1: chaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a chaste tree, used for punishment荆 Jīng: 荆 Jing1: an early name for the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]; surname Jing
- jade
- invaluable; priceless
- (courteous) to read respectfully
- 氏 shì: 氏 shi4: (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures氏 zhī: 氏 zhi1: used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
- jade annulus