to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說｜日心说 heliocentric theory)

variant of 說｜说

novel / fiction / CL: 本, 部

legend / folklore / to repeat from mouth to mouth / they say that...

it is said that / reportedly

to talk nonsense / drivel

theory / doctrine

to persuade

to explain / to comment

to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking

in other words / that is

in other words / that is to say / so / thus

an expression of opinion / according to some

generally speaking

as for / when it comes to

romantic fiction

to say sth

if / if one were to say

for example

though / although

It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative) / to discuss / to recount

short story

as the proverb says / as they say...

to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides

speech / to deliver a speech

to persuade / persuasion / to advise

hard to say / unpleasant to say / can't be sure

pornographic novel / dirty book

science fiction novel

generally speaking / to sum up / in summary / in short

easy to deal with / not a problem / (polite answer) you flatter me

as far as I'm concerned

to recount / to tell of / to relate / (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)

to tell the truth / to tell it as it is

in other words

that goes without saying

needless to say / it goes without saying

to have nothing to say (idiom)

to recount / to narrate / to give an account of

to narrate

to hear what was said

heliocentric theory / the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe

popular tradition / folk legend

hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it

strictly speaking

hypothesis

murder mystery (novel) / whodunit

to tell in detail

a martial arts (wuxia) novel

not to mention / leaving aside

for example / for instance

to not need dwell on (idiom)

novel

see 沒說的｜没说的

gossip / hearsay / rumor

novella

flash fiction

to put it simply / simply put

to allow no explanation

honestly speaking / to be frank, ...

to lobby / to campaign / to promote (an idea, a product) / (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)

sth pertinent to say

to talk drivel / to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact / not to know what one is talking about

Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding

to speak one's mind

to talk drivel / to make irresponsible remarks

dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest

it is reasonable to say that...

to make a long story short (idiom)

not saying anything further (idiom); not raising any objection / without demur

to comment / to evaluate

to explain (the difference)

to speak of / to refer to

for example

really good / excellent

to plead / to claim as an excuse

theory of free play (in Kant's philosophy)

spit it out!

to make a story or theory consistent / to give a plausible explanation / to plug the holes in one's story

to insist / to allege / to assert

to try one's very best to persuade sb (idiom) / to reason with sb in every way possible

simple introduction / primer

on the other hand

for example

harmful teachings / evil doctrine

normally / ordinarily speaking

to state / to assert

in the ordinary course of events / ordinarily / normally

historical novel

novel of denunciation (according to Lu Xun's 魯迅｜鲁迅 classification)

inaugural speech

to chatter endlessly

flash fiction

to affirm / to assert / generally accepted view

not to mention ... (i.e. in addition to sth)

to speak for sb / to intercede for sb / to lobby illegally

Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍｜冯梦龙, collection of late Ming baihua 白話｜白话 tales published in 1620

see 二話不說｜二话不说

looking at the big picture / all in all / all things considered

accepted theory or formulation