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an excuse
not to be shirked without dishonor (idiom) / incumbent / bounden (duty)
humble words / self-deprecatory expression / to modestly decline
rhetoric
stern words
to express in words or writing / to make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc) / to address (an audience) / same as 致詞|致词
HSK 7-9
to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
HSK 7-9
wording / way of expressing something / turn of phrase / diction
tactful expression / to politely decline
term of respect; polite expression
to interpret the divinatory trigrams
equivocal speech / to use vague or ambiguous language
articulate / eloquent
to quit one's job (without having another one)
Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu , collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝
short speech given in proposing a toast
excuse / pretext / entreaties / arguments
to send a message
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
adjective
words / expression / what one says
HSK 7-9
ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out
to tender one's resignation
to say goodbye / to take one's leave
HSK 7-9
to decline with sincere thanks
to speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictions / also written 振振有詞|振振有词
praise
beautiful wordage / also written 麗詞|丽词
to die / to depart from the world forever
dirge / lament
an elegy / elegiac words
flattering words
refutation / incoherent speech
language; use of words; phraseology / articles; essays; writing
not to refuse to (idiom) / not to hesitate to
one-sided words / prejudice / flattery
lectures
to interpret the divinatory trigrams
literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence
If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.
variant of 託詞|托词
variant of 託詞|托词
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  *辞* | 辞* | *辞
to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 詞|词
HSK 7-9
variant of 冗詞|冗词
variant of 頌詞|颂词
variant of 悼詞|悼词


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