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Trad. 說
- to speak; to talk; to say
- to explain; to comment
- to scold; to tell off
- (bound form) theory; doctrine
Trad. 聽說
- to hear (sth said)
- one hears (that)
- hearsay
- listening and speaking
Trad. 說唱
- speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] and 相聲|相声[xiang4 sheng5]
- (music) rapping
Trad. 說客
- (old) itinerant political adviser
- (fig.) lobbyist
- go-between
- mouthpiece
- also pr. [shuo1 ke4]
Trad. 說明
- to explain
- to illustrate
- to indicate
- to show
- to prove
- explanation
- directions
- caption
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Trad. 說法
- way of speaking
- wording
- formulation
- one's version (of events)
- statement
- theory
- hypothesis
- interpretation
Trad. 遊說
- to lobby
- to campaign
- to promote (an idea, a product)
- (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)
Trad. 訴說
- to recount
- to tell of
- to relate
- (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)
Trad. 關說
- to speak on sb's behalf; to intercede for sb
- to lobby illegally
Trad. 戲說
- dramatic form consisting of historical narration
- history as jocular narrative
- to stretch history for a joking story
- amusing story with strained interpretations of history
- to make an unreasonable comparison in jest
Trad. 瞎說
- to talk drivel
- to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact
- not to know what one is talking about
Trad. 好說
- easy to deal with; not a problem
- (polite answer) you flatter me
Trad. 話說
- It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative)
- to discuss; to recount
Trad. 傅說
- Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding
Trad. 再說
- to say again
- to put off a discussion until later
- moreover
- what's more
- besides
Trad. 傳說
- legend; folk tale
- to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
Trad. 難說
- hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict)
- cannot bring oneself to say it
Trad. 說不上
- to be unable to say or tell
- to not be worth mentioning
Trad. 說不得
- to be unmentionable
- be unspeakable
- must
- cannot but
Trad. 不好說
- hard to say; can't be sure
- difficult to speak about; unpleasant to say
Trad. 說得上
- can be counted or regarded as
- to be able to tell or answer
- to deserve mention
Trad. 說明書
- (technical) manual
- (book of) directions
- synopsis (of a play or film)
- specification (patent)
- CL:本[ben3]
Trad. 小說家
- School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Trad. 日心說
- heliocentric theory
- the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe
Trad. 解說詞
- commentary (for a film etc); caption (for a photo etc)
Trad. 沒說的
- (coll.) nothing to pick on; really good
- (coll.) nothing to discuss; settled matter; no problem
Trad. 災變說
- catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)
Trad. 古今小說
- Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2], collection of late Ming baihua 白話|白话[bai2 hua4] tales published in 1620
Trad. 推理小說
- murder mystery (novel); whodunit
Trad. 不說自明
- goes without saying; obvious; self-evident
Trad. 聽說讀寫
- listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
Trad. 說一不二
- to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word
Trad. 說三道四
- to make thoughtless remarks (idiom)
- to criticize
- gossip
Trad. 神魔小說
- supernatural novel
- novel of ghosts and goblins
Trad. 談天說地
- to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun
Trad. 現身說法
- to talk from one's personal experience
- to use oneself as an example
Trad. 眾說紛揉
- lit. diverse opinions confused and divided (idiom); opinions differ
- controversial matters
Trad. 說也奇怪
- strangely enough
- oddly enough
- strange to say
Trad. 信口胡說
- to speak without thinking; to blurt sth out
Trad. 志怪小說
- tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)
Trad. 說來話長
- start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
Trad. 談情說愛
- to murmur endearments (idiom)
- to get into a romantic relationship
Trad. 說到做到
- to be as good as one's word (idiom)
- to keep one's promise
Trad. 能說會道
- can talk really well (idiom); the gift of the gab
Trad. 少說為佳
- Few words are best.
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
Trad. 說岳全傳
- "The Story of Yue Fei", biography of Song dynasty patriot and general Yue Fei 岳飛|岳飞[Yue4 Fei1]
Trad. 說幹就幹
- to do what needs to be done, without delay
Trad. 說得過去
- acceptable
- passable
- justifiable
- (of a course of action) to make sense
Trad. 說文解字
- Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest systematic Chinese character dictionary, compiled by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎[Xu3 Shen4] in the Eastern Han dynasty (2nd century), containing 10,516 entries
Trad. 說東道西
- to chat about this and that
- to talk about anything and everything
Trad. 說老實話
- to be honest
- to tell the truth
- to be frank
Trad. 無話不說
- (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
Trad. 說著玩兒
- erhua variant of 說著玩|说着玩[shuo1 zhe5 wan2]
Trad. 說葡萄酸
- sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop)
- lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
Trad. 有一說一
- to speak plainly; to speak one's mind; to say directly
Trad. 說話算數
- to keep one's promise; to mean what one says
Trad. 說話算話
- to do as promised
- to be as good as one's word
- to honor one's word
- to mean what one says
Trad. 說長道短
- lit. to discuss sb's merits and demerits (idiom); to gossip
Trad. 說風涼話
- to sneer
- to make cynical remarks
- sarcastic talk
Trad. 有說有笑
- talking and laughing
- to jest
- cheerful and lively