Vocabulary: 白鲸
- pepper
- to praise; to commend; to compliment
- extremely (placed after verb or adjective)
- to be out of the question
- to feel deep veneration for sb (idiom)
- is precisely
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
- ibis; Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon); same as 朱䴉|朱鹮[zhu1 huan2]
- to roast; to grill; to broil; to bake; to toast (bread); to warm oneself by a fire
- hippopotamus
- that kind of
- to be partial towards sth; to favor; to prefer; preference; favorite
- pyramid (building or structure)
- (loanword) mummy (preserved corpse)
- 直 Zhí: 直 Zhi2: surname Zhi; Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God直 zhí: 直 zhi2: straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters
- the bow or prow of a ship
- cabin; the hold of a ship or airplane
- summit; peak
- only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt
- to tell; to instruct; to command
- 干 Gān: 干 Gan1: surname Gan干 gān: 干 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder干 gān: 干 gan1: (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shield干 gàn: 干 gan4: tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- (dialect) locust; grasshopper
- really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality
- unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp
- to touch (physically, one's feelings etc); to touch on (a topic)
- ancient; old; age-old
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- 范 fàn: 范 fan4: pattern; model; example范 Fàn: 范 Fan4: surname Fan
- human relationship; order; coherence
- family; clan
- Hardy or Hardie (name)
- to turn; to wrench; button; nu (Greek letter Νν)
- furthermore (idiom)
- to put into
- asphalt; tar; pitch