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| | to make a speech / statement / utterance / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | spokesperson | HSK 6 |
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| | topolect / dialect | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize | HSK 6 |
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| | saying / famous remark | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to leave a message; to leave one's comments / message | HSK 6 |
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| | fable; allegory; parable / CL: 則|则 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | every word and action (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to exaggerate; to overstate the facts | |
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| | spokesperson | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | inexpressible (idiom) | |
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| | declaration / manifesto | HSK 7-9 |
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| | categorical proposition (logic) | |
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| | words / expression / what one says | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight | |
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| | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell | |
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| | articulate in speech (idiom) / eloquent | |
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| | expression of opinion / views / remarks / arguments | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | |
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| | words and actions / what one says and what one does | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice / words of enormous weight | |
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| | it goes without saying; it is self-evident | |
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| | to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice / to take sb at his word | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | can be understood, but not described (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); mysterious and subtle | |
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| | (idiom) it's a deal / that's settled then | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | Classical Chinese | |
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| | to predict / prophecy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sincere advice; heartfelt exhortation | |
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| | maxim | |
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| | generally speaking | |
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| | in other words | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lie | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative | |
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| | words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb) | |
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| | the six-syllable Sanskrit mantra of Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva (i.e. om mani padme hum) | |
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| | intimate conversation | |
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| | to state clearly | |
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| | globally; worldwide | |
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| | sarcastic comments (idiom) / to make sarcastic comments | |
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| | to turn out just as one predicted or feared | |
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| | wise saying; words of wisdom | |
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| | words / speech / to say / to talk | |
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| | to mislead the public with rumors; to delude the people with lies | |
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| | to be a spokesperson / to be an ambassador (for a brand) / to endorse | |
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| | foreword / introduction | |
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| | natural language processing, NLP | |
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| | Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙 published in 1624 | |
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| | Manifesto of the Communist Party / "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei" by Marx and Engels (1848) | |
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| | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| | poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line | |
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| | (idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery | |
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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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| | good words | |
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| | true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼) | |
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| | in a nutshell / to put it briefly | |
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| | not to worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say | |
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| | kind words | |
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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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| | gossip is a fearful thing (idiom) | |
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| | tongues are wagging (idiom) | |
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| | spokesman | |
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| | rumor | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to propose / to put forward (an idea) / to initiate | |
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| | to exhibit one's feelings in one's speech | |
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| | to speak cautiously / to guard one's tongue | |
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| | a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb) | |
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| | verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines (abbr. to 七律) | |
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| | (brand or organization) ambassador / face (of a brand or company) | |
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| | graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words / cheating wheedling / dishonest rhetoric | |
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| | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop | |
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| | a few drinks and a nice conversation (idiom) | |
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| | children's words carry no harm (idiom) | |
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| | the press / the media | |
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| | gems of wisdom (idiom); priceless advice | |
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| | needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage) | |
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| | complaint | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to assert / assertion | |
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| | in simple terms / to put things simply / briefly | |
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| | to speak and keep one's promise (idiom); as good as one's word | |
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| | as the saying goes; as they say... | |
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| | admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs | |
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| | a bunch of nonsense | |
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| | a pack of lies | |
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| | (idiom) to have a disagreement; to clash verbally | |
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| | to be bold enough to speak out | |
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