listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
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to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
dirty jokes / jokes of a visceral nature
obscene speech / crude language
foolish talk / nonsense
mobile phone (Tw)
Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
(fig.) adaptable / able to deal with various kinds of people and situations / (derog.) insincere / two-faced
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty
notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
speechless
to talk nonsense / to bullshit
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
to fail to keep to one's word / to break a promise
to keep one's promise / to mean what one says
to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says
promises must be kept
to sneer / to make cynical remarks / sarcastic talk
to gossip / to make unfavorable comments
rumor / anecdote (not in the official record) / apocryphal story
exaggeration
(coll.) that thing / that matter / you-know-what / (euphemism) sexual organ
let's talk about the unpleasant things first / let's be frank
harsh words
(telephony) long-distance call charge
to chat about domestic trivia (idiom)
to converse with sb by shouting from some distance away / (fig.) to say sth intended for the ears of sb who is not in one's presence (often, by making a public statement or by posting online)
telephone signal
area code / telephone dialing code
telephone card
conference call / teleconference
telephone network
telephone network
telephone line
(telephone) ring / ringing
off-topic comment / digression
romance / romantic affair
obscenities / lewd talk
intimate or heartfelt words / heart-to-heart talk
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27