Vocabulary: 白鲸
- to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in
- joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd
- to appear; to look; form; shape
- button
- canvas; sailcloth
- (derog.) country bumpkin; hick
- rainstorm; storm; tempest
- throat
- fracture; rupture; to break apart
- famous city
- to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit
- visitor; caller
- 土地 tǔ dì: 土地 tu3 di4: land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]土地 tǔ di: 土地 tu3 di5: local god; genius loci
- remote; desolate; far from the city
- to scare; scary; frightening
- barren; infertile; poor
- thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive
- 棱 léng: 棱 leng2: square beam棱 lēng: 棱 leng1: used in 刺棱[ci1 leng1]; used in 花不棱登[hua1 bu5 leng1 deng1]; used in 撲棱|扑棱[pu1 leng1]棱 léng: 棱 leng2: arris; edge; corrugation; ridges棱 líng: 棱 ling2: used in 穆稜|穆棱[Mu4 ling2] (the name of a place in Heilongjiang); used in 丹稜|丹棱[Dan1 ling2] (the name of a place in Sichuan); used in 綏稜|绥棱[Sui2 ling2] (the name of a place in Heilongjiang)
- livable
- affluent; very rich
- really; in fact; genuinely; scrupulously
- authenticated; solid; firm; real; true
- Canaan (in Biblical Palestine)
- springtime
- season; time
- fresh (experience, food etc); freshness; novel; uncommon
- (chicken) egg; hen's egg; CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2]
- to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline); to install (wiring, cable); to construct (road, concrete slab)
- lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy
- impressive; stylish; magnificent; imposing manner; dignified air
- private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship; a member of one's clique
- garden (for flowers, ornamental plants etc); (landscaped) park; yard with decorative plants; CL:座[zuo4]
- (idiom) (of houses etc) sumptuous
- to take root
- volcano
- slag (in mining or smelting); dregs
- erect; towering; to stand tall
- (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
- model; typical case; archetype; typical; representative
- fence
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing; fig. everything becomes clear at once; to achieve speedy enlightenment
- gorgeous