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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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abbr. for Syria 敘利亞|叙利亚
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to narrate / to chat
to narrate / narrative
to explain all the details / complete narrative
to talk face-to-face
to recount what happened prior to events already known
chronological narrative
to speak tentatively
to take tea and chat / a small-scale informal gathering with tea and snacks
Israel-Syria
to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
Egypt-Syria
(idiom) (neutral) to narrate in a plain, unaffected manner; (mildly critical) to recount events in a flat, colorless style
reported speech (in grammar)


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