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启发 to enlighten / to explain (a text etc) / to stimulate (a mental attitude) / enlightenment / revelation / motivation
对照 duì zhào to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check
疏通 shū tōng to unblock / to dredge / to clear the way / to get things flowing / to facilitate / to mediate / to lobby / to explicate (a text)
顺理成章 shùn chéng zhāng logical / only to be expected / rational and clearly structured (of text)
删减 shān jiǎn to abridge (a text) / to edit out (of a movie) / to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)
笺注 jiān zhù to annotate (ancient texts) / commentaries
正文 zhèng wén main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book)
加粗 jiā to make text bold
涂改 gǎi to alter (text) / to change by painting over / to correct (with correction fluid)
乱码 luàn mojibake (nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding)
kuò (bound form) to tie up; to tighten up / (bound form) to include; to comprise / to put (text) in brackets / Taiwan pr. [gua1]
信道 xìn dào (telecommunications) channel / (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them
背书 bèi shū to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
文饰 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over
键入 jiàn to key in; to input; to enter (some text)
拾遗 shí to pocket a lost article / (fig.) to correct others' errors / to remedy omissions (in a text etc)
书馆 shū guǎn teashop with performance by 評書|评书 story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts)
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)
删节 shān jié to abridge / to cut a text down to size for publication
顺口 shùn kǒu to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food)
释文 shì wén interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script
圈点 quān diǎn to mark a text with dots and circles / to punctuate
读经 jīng to study the Confucian classics / to read scriptures or canonical texts
换行 huàn háng to wrap (text) / line feed (computing)
训诂 xùn to interpret and make glossaries and commentaries on classic texts


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