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HSK
a speech / to speak / to talk / to address / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
HSK 2
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  *话* | 话* | *话
dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL: 種|种, , , ,
HSK 1
in a word; in short
HSK 5
to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word
HSK 1
telephone / CL: / phone call / CL: / phone number
HSK 1
joke; jest (CL:個|个) / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd
HSK 2
to make a telephone call
HSK 1
to talk (with sb) / to have a conversation / talk / conversation / CL:
HSK 3
if (coming after a conditional clause)
HSK 2
to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call
HSK 6
children's fairy tales
HSK 4
to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation
HSK 2
legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology
HSK 4
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
unreasonable / shocking / outrageous
HSK 7-9
stage play / modern drama / CL: 臺|台,
HSK 3
subject (of a talk or conversation) / topic
HSK 3
to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly
HSK 6
(to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind
HSK 7-9
Shanghainese / Shanghai dialect
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
HSK 7-9
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
truth
HSK 7-9
(idiom) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion
harsh words / sarcasm / bitter remarks
Beijing dialect
(idiom) not saying anything further; not raising any objection; without demur
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
HSK 7-9
foreign languages
automatic telephone exchange
lie
HSK 7-9
public phone / CL:
terms of endearment / words of love
mythical story; myth
(of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
to do what one is told / obedient
HSK 7-9
telephone line / telephone wire
to reply
to speak using a loud voice or megaphone etc / (fig.) to convey a strong message
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
the content of a conversation / words / remarks
(spoken) Chinese language
friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
(language learning) conversation / dialog / to converse (in a non-native language) / (computing) session / CL: 個|个,
irony / ironic remark
microphone / (telephone) receiver; handset / megaphone / (fig.) mouthpiece; spokesperson
HSK 7-9
empty promises
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
words / speech / utterance / discourse
HSK 7-9
Cantonese language
Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question)
Hakka dialect
demoralizing talk
"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
to reply / to answer
It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative) / to discuss; to recount
telephone signal
to keep one's promise; to mean what one says
a lie / untrue statement / misstatement
in other words
mobile telephone
words of politeness / politesse / decorous talking / talk with propriety
dialog box (computing)
polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
to watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself
one's words carry an implicit meaning
telephone set
to tell the truth / to tell it as it is
HSK 7-9
witticism / wisecrack / sarcastic remark / double entendre
chatterer
topic under discussion; direction or tone of the conversation
subject (under discussion) / thread (of an argument)
fairy tale
start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
mobile telephone
to be nothing difficult / to be a cinch
telephone network
obscenities / lewd talk
fixed-line telephone; landline telephone
cheesy pick-up lines
unreasonable / shocking; outrageous
(saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter; (fig.) to be an armchair expert; to blabber on
to gossip / to make unfavorable comments
nonsense / ridiculous talk / hogwash
to have nothing to say (idiom)
HSK 7-9
spoken language / vernacular
ready-made phrase / unhelpful comment
vulgar language; coarse language
ability to have one's say and be listened to; influence; clout
be that as it may
walkie-talkie / portable radio transmitter
unpleasant talk / malicious words
(dialect) to chat
long-winded empty talk
to admonish subordinates
form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty

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