Vocabulary: 白鲸
- baptism (lit. or fig.)
- to limit; to confine; to restrict sth within set boundaries
- chest; bosom
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- corset; sockpuppet (Internet slang); vest (dialect)
- 台 tāi: 台 tai1: used in place names台 tái: 台 tai2: (classical) you (in letters)台 Tái: 台 Tai2: Taiwan (abbr.); surname Tai台 tái: 台 tai2: desk; table; counter台 Tái: 台 Tai2: Taiwan (abbr.)台 tái: 台 tai2: platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines台 tái: 台 tai2: typhoon
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- soap; CL:塊|块[kuai4],條|条[tiao2]
- to dip in (ink, sauce etc)
- soapy lather; foam
- razor
- to see
- scabbard; sheath
- large strides
- to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span
- not as good as; would rather
- ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
- 锉 cùo: 锉 cuo4: (literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack锉 cùo: 锉 cuo4: file (tool used for smoothing); rasp; to file
- Rogers
- cutting tool
- to avenge; vengeance
- to work; to operate; to manipulate
- essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- steel
- to forge (metal); (fig.) to create; to build; to develop
- very fast; at lightning speed; (coll.) razor-sharp
- pride; arrogance; conceited; proud of sth
- stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved); a (usu. bad) situation; leeway
- navigator
- (military) marshal; commander-in-chief
- to play with; to engage in; to resort to; to dally with
- baton
- to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)
- breakfast; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- to follow after; immediately afterwards
- to go downstairs
- smile; CL:個|个[ge4],絲|丝[si1]; to smile