Vocabulary: 白鲸
- 转头 zhuǎn tóu: 转头 zhuan3 tou2: to turn one's head; to change direction; U-turn; volte face; to repent转头 zhuàn tóu: 转头 zhuan4 tou2: nutation (plants turning to face the sun)
- the scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot; (at) the site
- to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth)
- 读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- cold (climate); frigid; very cold
- inscription
- kin; kindred; relatives
- unknown; unable to find out
- numerous
- accident; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3],次[ci4]
- cannot; to fail to; unable to
- to be present; to be on the scene
- woman
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- to cease; to end
- sad; sorrowful
- not yet; still not
- (of a wound) to heal
- cause; reason; because
- to take pity on; pity; mercy
- to recur (of a disease); to reappear; to relapse (into a former bad state)
- to bleed; to shed blood
- one's close relatives
- (euphemism) to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place)
- green grass
- cluster of flowers; inflorescence; flowering shrub
- married woman
- circumstances; atmosphere; mood
- bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains
- what kind?; how, what; somewhat
- as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous; hollow; empty (argument, head etc)
- to change; to alter; to transform
- inscription on a tablet
- to despair; to give up all hope; desperate; desperation
- fatal; mortal; deadly; to sacrifice one's life
- nothingness
- breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy
- to erode; to corrode
- to believe in (a religion); firm belief; conviction
- to refuse; to decline; to reject