Vocabulary: 白鲸
- after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- Chinese-style gown
- to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread
- pah!; bah!; pooh!; to spit (in contempt)
- bitter cold; severe winter
- night
- Orion (constellation)
- northern lights; aurora borealis
- stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race
- to discuss; to talk about
- eternal; everlasting; fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
- greenhouse
- 东方 dōng fāng: 东方 dong1 fang1: east东方 Dōng fāng: 东方 Dong1 fang1: the East; the Orient; two-character surname Dongfang
- (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs)
- prerogative; privilege; privileged
- coal
- to manufacture; to make
- summer; CL:個|个[ge4]
- both hands
- to warm oneself (by a fire, heater etc)
- preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- 待 dāi: 待 dai1: to stay; to remain待 dài: 待 dai4: to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to
- Sumatra, one of the Indonesian islands
- to wish; to want; ready; willing (to do sth)
- here
- (idiom) sprawled out on one's back
- to recline; to lie down
- equator (of the earth or a celestial body); celestial equator
- (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs
- deities; gods
- to resist; to withstand
- burning hot; scorching
- Shenkeng township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- comparable
- iceberg; ice-covered mountain; (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long; CL:座[zuo4]
- 摩 mó: 摩 mo2: to rub摩 mā: 摩 ma1: used in 摩挲[ma1 sa5]
- deer
- 加 jiā: 加 jia1: to add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment; (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")加 Jiā: 加 Jia1: Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]); surname Jia
- group of islands; archipelago
- wonderful; marvelous; intriguing; mysterious; strange
- I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
- czar (loanword)
- to freeze
- to bring about; to create; to cause
- ice; CL:塊|块[kuai4]; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine