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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
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)
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
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
堪称 kān chēng can be rated as / can be said to be
可谓 wèi it could even be said
终究 zhōng jiū in the end / after all is said and done
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
话说 huà shuō It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative) / to discuss; to recount
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
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
chá stubble (crop residue) / stubble (hair growth) / classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop / sth just said or mentioned
shèn giant clam / (mythology) clam-monster said to breathe out a vapor that forms a mirage of buildings
闻言 wén yán to have heard what was said
言外之意 yán wài zhī (idiom) unspoken implication; the actual meaning of what was said
谈何容易 tán róng easier said than done (idiom)
知无不言,言无不尽 zhī yán , yán jìn lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken


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