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| | to make a speech / statement / utterance / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | words / speech / (spoken) language | HSK 5 |
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| | to leave a message; to leave one's comments / message | HSK 6 |
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| | rumor / hearsay | HSK 6 |
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| | spokesperson | HSK 6 |
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| | lie | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rumor | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words and actions / what one says and what one does | HSK 7-9 |
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| | topolect / dialect | HSK 7-9 |
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| | saying / famous remark | HSK 7-9 |
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| | expression of opinion / views / remarks / arguments | HSK 7-9 |
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| | every word and action (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to predict / prophecy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fable; allegory; parable / CL: 則|则 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | complaint | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in other words | HSK 7-9 |
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| | declaration / manifesto | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words / expression / what one says | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in short / in a word / in brief | HSK 7-9 |
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| | relatively speaking / comparatively speaking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | spokesperson | HSK 7-9 |
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| | promise | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words / speech / to say / to talk | |
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| | Classical Chinese | |
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| | a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness | |
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| | to be a spokesperson / to be an ambassador (for a brand) / to endorse | |
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| | preface; foreword; introduction; preamble / earlier remarks; earlier words / (literary) words of the ancient thinkers | |
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| | foreword / introduction | |
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| | to speak / to tell | |
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| | (typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…| 对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ... | |
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| | tactful / diplomatic / mild and indirect | |
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| | lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content | |
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| | to speak / words | |
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| | idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor | |
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| | to pledge / to promise / oath / vow | |
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| | preface; introductory remarks; preamble; prelude | |
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| | (idiom) filthy speech; obscenities | |
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| | maxim | |
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| | to teach by words and example (idiom) | |
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| | implication | |
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| | to assert / assertion | |
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| | the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters | |
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| | words of the deceased / last words of the dying / wisdom of past sages | |
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| | admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs | |
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| | introduction / preamble | |
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| | testimony | |
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| | true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼) | |
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| | habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative | |
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| | concise and comprehensive (idiom) | |
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| | to give verbal instruction | |
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| | graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words / cheating wheedling / dishonest rhetoric | |
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| | in a nutshell / to put it briefly | |
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| | babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch | |
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| | to put about (a story, plan, threat etc) / to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story) / to threaten | |
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| | to speak of / to refer to | |
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| | discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech | |
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| | to describe; to put into words | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | (idiom) unspoken implication; the actual meaning of what was said | |
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| | rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders | |
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| | to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish | |
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| | to speak forthrightly / to talk bluntly | |
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| | to break one's promise | |
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| | to exaggerate / to boast | |
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| | lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept | |
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| | dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless; at a loss for words | |
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| | to speak bluntly (idiom) / not to mince words | |
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| | lies / wild talk / to tell lies / to talk nonsense / fantasy (literature) | |
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| | (idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery | |
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| | to distinguish oneself through one's writing (one the three imperishables 三不朽) / to expound one's theory | |
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| | (idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize | |
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| | (idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says | |
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| | slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret | |
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| | to exhibit one's feelings in one's speech | |
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| | in a way that justifies the use of the term / genuine / proper / in a way that conforms to logic / justifiable / appropriate / perfectly legitimate | |
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| | to be left speechless / unable to respond | |
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| | (of a movie, novel etc) portraying a love affair; romantic; sentimental | |
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| | to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice / to take sb at his word | |
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| | to boast shamelessly / to talk big | |
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| | to weigh up sb's words and observe their facial expression (idiom) / to discern what sb thinks from his body language | |
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| | frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds | |
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| | to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken | |
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| | words from the bottom of one's heart | |
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| | to speak cautiously / to guard one's tongue | |
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| | joking matter / to go back on one's words | |
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| | (sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old) / having things decided by the will of a single individual / autocratic rule / (contrasted with 群言堂) | |
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| | to make a suggestion / to state (one's views, ideas etc) / suggestion / advice / idea | |
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| | to speak rudely | |
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| | to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point | |
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| | (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases | |
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| | rumor / gossip / to spread rumors | |
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| | superfluous words / unnecessary detail | |
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| | evil tongue / malicious talk | |
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| | wise saying; words of wisdom | |
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| | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | |
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| | sarcastic comments (idiom) / to make sarcastic comments | |
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| | (idiom) it's a deal / that's settled then | |
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