Vocabulary: 白鲸
- witch; sorceress
- to be rampant; to run wild
- 时代 shí dài: 时代 shi2 dai4: age; era; epoch; period (in one's life); CL:個|个[ge4]时代 Shí dài: 时代 Shi2 dai4: Time, US weekly news magazine
- witchcraft
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- scene; sight (to behold)
- conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart
- to think deeply; to ponder
- to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion)
- conclusion; verdict; CL:個|个[ge4]; to conclude; to reach a verdict
- crazy; frenzied; wild
- completely
- to feel puzzled
- central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- 溜 līu: 溜 liu1: to slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate溜 lìu: 溜 liu4: swift current; rapids; (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled; proficient; (of movements) quick; speedy; (bound form) rain runoff from a roof; (bound form) roof gutter; classifier for rows, lines etc; surroundings; neighborhood; (dialect) to practice; (dialect) to plaster; to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc)
- soft
- ominous; inauspicious
- to spiral; to circle; to go around; to hover; to orbit
- three of a kind (poker)
- line (in drawing, calligraphy etc); the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
- (math.) perpendicular line; vertical line
- marsh; swamp; wetlands; glade
- sufficient to...; so much so that; so that
- nervous exhaustion; neurasthenia; mental breakdown (often used to describe what is now understood to be clinical depression)
- artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort
- lit. heart distracted, thoughts in turmoil (idiom); distraught with anxiety
- unlimited; unbounded
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- just; exactly; to happen to be
- (said by departing guest) no need to see me out
- (idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)
- to vow; to pledge; to swear
- to find; to search out
- intelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)
- to have; to possess
- to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end; to link
- midnight
- gale; CL:場|场[chang2]
- Black Sea
- the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC)
- unusual; abnormal
- to struggle; to fight; struggle
- cluster; collection; collection of books; thicket
- to wilt; to wither; wilted; withered; drained; enervated; exhausted
- Chinese photinia (Photinia serratifolia)