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| | 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) | HSK 1 |
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| | novel / fiction / CL: 本, 部 | HSK 4 |
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| | legend / folklore / to repeat from mouth to mouth / they say that... | HSK 5 |
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| | in other words / that is | |
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| | in other words / that is to say / so / thus | |
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| | to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking | |
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| | to say sth | |
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| | to explain / to comment | |
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| | it is said that / reportedly | HSK 5 |
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| | It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative) / to discuss / to recount | |
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| | as for / when it comes to | |
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| | generally speaking | |
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| | romantic fiction | |
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| | to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides | |
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| | an expression of opinion / according to some | |
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| | in other words | |
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| | easy to deal with / not a problem / (polite answer) you flatter me | |
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| | theory / doctrine | HSK 6 |
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| | though / although | |
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| | science fiction novel | |
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| | as the proverb says / as they say... | |
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| | a martial arts (wuxia) novel | |
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| | to recount / to tell of / to relate / (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history) | |
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| | generally speaking / to sum up / in summary / in short | |
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| | to persuade / persuasion / to advise | |
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| | short story | |
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| | speech / to deliver a speech | |
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| | novel | |
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| | for example / for instance | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | as far as I'm concerned | |
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| | hard to say / unpleasant to say / can't be sure | |
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| | murder mystery (novel) / whodunit | |
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| | to tell in detail | |
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| | to tell the truth / to tell it as it is | |
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| | for example | |
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| | it is reasonable to say that... | |
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| | to recount / to narrate / to give an account of | |
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| | hypothesis | |
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| | popular tradition / folk legend | |
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| | to talk drivel / to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact / not to know what one is talking about | |
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| | not saying anything further (idiom); not raising any objection / without demur | |
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| | to put it simply / simply put | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | to comment / to evaluate | |
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| | to speak of / to refer to | |
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| | to talk nonsense / drivel | HSK 5 |
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| | to talk drivel / to make irresponsible remarks | |
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| | honestly speaking / to be frank, ... | |
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| | to have nothing to say (idiom) | |
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| | not to mention / leaving aside | |
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| | strictly speaking | |
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| | fiction | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | novella | |
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| | really good / excellent | |
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| | sth pertinent to say | |
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| | in the ordinary course of events / ordinarily / normally | |
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| | supernatural novel / novel of ghosts and goblins | |
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| | flash fiction | |
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| | to chatter endlessly | |
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| | gossip / hearsay / rumor | |
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| | various ideas / diverse opinions | |
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| | to state / to assert | |
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| | flash fiction | |
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| | to make a long story short (idiom) | |
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| | to make a story or theory consistent / to give a plausible explanation / to plug the holes in one's story | |
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| | theory of free play (in Kant's philosophy) | |
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| | to allow no explanation | |
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| | on the other hand | |
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| | simple introduction / primer | |
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| | to narrate | |
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| | harmful teachings / evil doctrine | |
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| | inaugural speech | |
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| | popular fiction / light literature | |
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| | phlogiston theory | |
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| | accepted theory or formulation | |
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| | to not need dwell on (idiom) | |
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| | looking at the big picture / all in all / all things considered | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | novel of denunciation (according to Lu Xun's 鲁迅 classification) | |
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| | thus | |
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| | scattered essays / various opinions / different manners of speaking | |
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| | non-fiction | |
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| | heliocentric theory / the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe | |
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| | to explain (the difference) | |
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| | to hear what was said | |
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| | to plead / to claim as an excuse | |
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| | to try one's very best to persuade sb (idiom) / to reason with sb in every way possible | |
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| | to write a book advancing one's theory (idiom) | |
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| | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet | |
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| | not to mention ... (i.e. in addition to sth) | |
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| | Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding | |
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| | geocentric theory | |
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| | to insist / to allege / to assert | |
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| | normally / ordinarily speaking | |
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| | to plagiarize | |
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