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Trad. 約談
- to arrange a meeting for a formal talk (usu. by an authority with a subordinate); to summon for questioning or a warning
Trad. 談話
- to talk (with sb)
- to have a conversation
- talk
- conversation
- CL:次[ci4]
Trad. 深談
- to have an in depth conversation
- to have intimate talks
- to discuss thoroughly
Trad. 筆談
- to communicate by means of written notes (instead of speaking)
- to publish one's opinion (e.g. as part of a scholarly dialogue)
- (in book titles) essays
- sketches
Trad. 笑談
- object of ridicule
- laughingstock
- to laugh over sth
- to make light chat
Trad. 談得來
- to be able to talk to
- to get along with
- to be congenial
Trad. 談戀愛
- to be in a romantic relationship; to go steady; to be dating
Trad. 十日談
- Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1]
Trad. 司馬談
- Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1]
Trad. 促膝談心
- (idiom) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk
Trad. 談古論今
- to talk of the past and discuss the present (idiom)
- to chat freely
- to discuss everything
Trad. 老生常談
- an old observation (idiom)
- a truism
- banal comments
Trad. 談天說地
- to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun
Trad. 奇談怪論
- strange tales and absurd arguments (idiom)
- unreasonable remarks
Trad. 談性色變
- to turn pale at the mention of sex; prudish
Trad. 談情說愛
- to murmur endearments (idiom)
- to get into a romantic relationship
Trad. 談笑自若
- to talk and laugh as though nothing had happened
- to remain cheerful (despite a crisis)
Trad. 誇誇其談
- (idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
Trad. 談笑風生
- to talk cheerfully and wittily
- to joke together
Trad. 談虎色變
- lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom)
- fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it)
Trad. 言談林藪
- articulate in speech (idiom)
- eloquent
Trad. 無話不談
- not to hold anything back (idiom)
- (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
Trad. 朝鮮核談
- talks on North Korea's nuclear program
Trad. 混為一談
- to confuse one thing with another (idiom); to muddle
Trad. 首腦會談
- summit talks
- discussion between heads of state
Trad. 六方會談
- Six-Party Talks (2003–2007) on North Korea's nuclear program, involving China, the US, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia
Trad. 不經之談
- absurd statement
- cock-and-bull story
Trad. 夸夸其談
- variant of 誇誇其談|夸夸其谈[kua1 kua1 qi2 tan2]
Trad. 閉口不談
- to refuse to say anything about (idiom)
- to remain tight-lipped
- to avoid mentioning
Trad. 高談闊論
- to harangue
- loud arrogant talk
- to spout
Trad. 紙上談兵
- lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)
- fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice
- armchair strategist
- idle theorizing
- cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
Trad. 夢溪筆談
- Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括[Shen3 Kuo4], book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass
Trad. 街談巷議
- (idiom) town gossip
- streetcorner conversations