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| | to make a telephone call | HSK 1 |
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| | dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL: 種|种, 席, 句, 口, 番 | HSK 1 |
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| | a speech / to speak / to talk / to address / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | joke; jest (CL: 個|个) / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd | HSK 2 |
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| | if (coming after a conditional clause) | HSK 2 |
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| | in a word; in short | HSK 5 |
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| | legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology | HSK 4 |
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| | Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech | HSK 2 |
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| | to talk (with sb) / to have a conversation / talk / conversation / CL: 次 | HSK 3 |
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| | to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly | HSK 6 |
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| | to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word | HSK 1 |
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| | telephone / CL: 部 / phone call / CL: 通 / phone number | HSK 1 |
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| | children's fairy tales | HSK 4 |
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| | to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call | HSK 6 |
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| | truth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to do what one is told / obedient | HSK 7-9 |
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| | common saying / proverb | HSK 7-9 |
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| | corny joke | |
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| | mobile telephone | |
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| | colloquial speech | |
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| | nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to gossip / to make unfavorable comments | |
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| | (to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unreasonable / shocking / outrageous | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make sense | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank | HSK 7-9 |
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| | vernacular / slang / dialect / patois | |
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| | (fig.) adaptable; able to deal with various kinds of people and situations / (derog.) insincere; two-faced | |
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| | irony / ironic remark | |
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| | fixed-line telephone; landline telephone | |
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| | lie | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Shanghainese / Shanghai dialect | |
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| | Cantonese language | |
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| | pep talk | |
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| | (spoken) Chinese language | |
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| | to chat / to gossip | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to speak using a loud voice or megaphone etc / (fig.) to convey a strong message | |
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| | to ask sb a question / question | |
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| | Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China | |
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| | to sneer / to make cynical remarks / sarcastic talk | |
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| | bilateral talks | |
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| | polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb | |
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| | unreasonable / shocking; outrageous | |
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| | "officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin | |
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| | a lie / untrue statement / misstatement | |
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| | whisperings / private words / confidences / sweet nothings | |
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| | story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide | |
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| | (idiom) to lie through one's teeth; to talk drivel | |
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| | foolish talk / nonsense | |
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| | native language / native dialect | |
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| | to reply | |
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| | intercom | |
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| | Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects 吳語|吴语 | |
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| | empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip | |
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| | ready-made phrase / unhelpful comment | |
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| | cheesy pick-up lines | |
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| | to phone sb up | |
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| | to watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself | |
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| | conventional greeting; polite formula | |
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| | Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語|粤语 spoken in Jiangmen 江門|江门 and in the Chinatowns of North America | |
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| | mobile phone (Tw) | |
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| | exaggeration | |
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| | argot / bandits' secret jargon / malicious words | |
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| | terms of endearment / words of love | |
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| | storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary | |
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| | proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question) | |
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| | (let's) not mince words; (let's) not beat about the bush | |
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| | (coll.) not at all (humble expression denying compliment) / don't mention it | |
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| | Hakka dialect | |
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| | Chaoshan or Teo-Swa, a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people of the Chaoshan region 潮汕 | |
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| | harsh words / sarcasm / bitter remarks | |
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| | to reply / to answer | |
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| | radio telephony / wireless telephone | |
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| | talking in one's sleep / words spoken during sleep / fig. speech bearing no relation to reality / delusions | |
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| | friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions | |
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| | angry words / sth said in the moment of anger | |
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| | (Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense | |
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| | to interrupt (sb speaking) / interruption / digression | |
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| | to give orders / to spread news or rumors / to leak certain information intentionally | |
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| | biting words / stinging words | |
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| | to pour out obscenities / filthy mouthed | |
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| | spoken language / vernacular | |
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| | one's words carry an implicit meaning | |
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| | obscenities / lewd talk | |
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| | to pass on a story / to communicate a message | |
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| | Grimm's Fairy Tales | |
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| | to leave a message | |
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| | (of sb's words) to count / can be trusted | |
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| | Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content | |
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| | to converse with sb by shouting from some distance away / (fig.) to say sth intended for the ears of sb who is not in one's presence (often, by making a public statement or by posting online) | |
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| | jargon / language of the trade | |
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| | witticism / wisecrack / sarcastic remark / double entendre | |
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| | fixed-line telephone; landline telephone (abbr. for 固定電話|固定电话) | |
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| | foreign languages | |
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| | off-topic comment; digression | |
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| | neighborhood telephone, with sb in charge of notifying others when they receive a call | |
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