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huà dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
听说 tīng shuō to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking
到底 dào finally / in the end / when all is said and done / after all / to the end / to the last
据说 shuō it is said that; reportedly
下来 xià lai to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
究竟 jiū jìng to go to the bottom of a matter / after all / when all is said and done / (in an interrogative sentence) finally / outcome / result
无所谓 suǒ wèi to be indifferent / not to matter / cannot be said to be
毕竟 jìng after all / all in all / when all is said and done / in the final analysis
不怎么样 zěn me yàng not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it
可谓 wèi it could even be said
终究 zhōng jiū in the end / after all is said and done
堪称 kān chēng can be rated as / can be said to be
chán toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking) / (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon / (metonym) the moon
据称 chēng it is said / allegedly / according to reports / or so they say
抓哏 zhuā gén (of a comedian) to seize on something sb has just said or done to make an ad lib joke
东坡肘子 Dōng zhǒu zi Dongpo pork shoulder, traditional dish said to have been created by Northern Song dynasty writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡
蓬莱 Péng lái (Chinese mythology) Penglai, one of three fabled islands in the Bohai sea, where immortals were said to live; (by extension) fairyland
留步 liú (said by departing guest) no need to see me out
话说 huà shuō It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative) / to discuss; to recount
列子 Liè Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国[Zhan4 guo2] / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋[Wei4 Jin4] (3rd century AD)
玉兔 the Jade Hare (legendary rabbit said to live in the Moon) / the Moon
摸金校尉 jīn xiào wèi (idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to officials tasked with retrieving gold from tombs to fund military campaigns; (in popular fiction) tomb raider
shèn giant clam / (mythology) clam-monster said to breathe out a vapor that forms a mirage of buildings
隋炀帝 Suí Yáng Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
一言既出,驷马难追 yán chū , nán zhuī lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept


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