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Trad. 句讀
- pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)
- punctuation
- periods and commas
- sentences and phrases
- punctuation of a sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)
- period 句號|句号 and comma 逗號|逗号
- sentences and phrases
Trad. 斷句
- to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing
- to punctuate
- Jurong, a county-level city in Zhenjiang City 鎮江市|镇江市[Zhen4 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangsu
Trad. 主謂句
- subject-predicate sentence
- subject-predicate clause
Trad. 高句麗
- Goguryeo (37 BC-668 AD), one of the Korean Three Kingdoms
Trad. 讀破句
- incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point
- literal; word for word
- word by word and phrase by phrase
Trad. 三言兩句
- in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
Trad. 五言絕句
- poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line
Trad. 閉門覓句
- lit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom); fig. the serious hard work of writing
Trad. 有一句沒一句
- to speak one minute and be quiet the next
Trad. 話不投機半句多
- (idiom) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion
Trad. 三句話不離本行
- to talk shop all the time (idiom)