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启发 to enlighten / to explain (a text etc) / to stimulate (a mental attitude) / enlightenment / revelation / motivation
zhù to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text / an annotation; an explanatory note / (bound form) to put on record; to register
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)
xián to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
笺注 jiān zhù to annotate (ancient texts) / commentaries
尚书经 Shàng shū Jīng Book of History / a compendium of documents in various styles, making up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the times of Confucius
乱码 luàn mojibake (nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding)
删减 shān jiǎn to abridge (a text) / to edit out (of a movie) / to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)
删简压缩 shān jiǎn suō to simplify and condense (a text) / abridged
正文 zhèng wén main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book)
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)
文爱 wén ài (slang) to engage in mutual sexual arousal through written messages (e.g. text, chat); text-based cybersex
信道 xìn dào (telecommunications) channel / (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them
键入 jiàn to key in; to input; to enter (some text)
稽古 to learn from the ancients / to study the classic texts
涂改 gǎi to alter (text) / to change by painting over / to correct (with correction fluid)
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
圈点 quān diǎn to mark a text with dots and circles / to punctuate
kuò (bound form) to tie up; to tighten up / (bound form) to include; to comprise / to put (text) in brackets / Taiwan pr. [gua1]
训诂 xùn to interpret and make glossaries and commentaries on classic texts


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