Chinese | English |
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話 noun | dialect [dialects](particular variety of a language) |
話劇 noun | play [plays](theatrical performance) |
話務員 noun | operator [operators](telecommunications operator) |
話匣子 noun | chatterbox(one who chats or talks to excess) |
話癆 noun | chatterbox(one who chats or talks to excess) |
話筒 noun | handset [handsets](the part of a telephone containing both receiver and transmitter, held in the hand) microphone [microphones](transducer of sound waves to electricity) receiver [receivers](telephone handset) |
話舊 verb | reminisce [reminisced, reminiscing, reminisces](to recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically) |
話語 noun | discourse [discourses](expression in (spoken or written) words) |
話語分析 noun | discourse analysis [discourse analyses](number of approaches to analyzing discourse) |
話音郵件 noun | voice message(message left on a voice mail system) voicemail(system) |
話題 noun | talking point(specific topic raised in a conversation or argument) theme [themes](subject of a talk or an artistic piece) thread [threads]((Internet): a series of messages) topic [topics](subject; theme) |
話題化 noun | topicalization(placing topic at beginning of sentence) |
⿰亻革家話 proper noun | Gejia(language) |
上海話 proper noun | Shanghainese(language) |
下流的笑話 noun | dirty joke(joke with an obscene punchline) |
不像話 adjective | outrageous(shocking) |
之類的話 phrase | or words to that effect(used to indicate a paraphrase) |
你會說普通話嗎? phrase | do you speak English(do you speak...? (fill with the name of the current foreign language)) |
你的電話號碼是多少? phrase | what's your phone number(what's your phone number?) |
俏皮話 noun | pun [puns](joke or type of wordplay) witticism [witticisms](witty remark) |
俗話說 /súhuàshuō/ phrase | as the saying goes(said as a lead to a proverb or similar) |
傳話遊戲 noun | Chinese whispers(game) |
內部笑話 noun | inside joke(joke understood or meant to be understood by certain people) |
公用電話 noun | payphone(a public telephone) public telephonenoun |
公眾講話 noun | public speaking(speaking to a group of people in a structured manner) |
北方話 noun | Mandarin [mandarins](a branch of the Chinese languages, see also: ) |
北方話 proper noun | Guanhua(language) |
反話 noun | irony [ironies](statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally) |
受話器 noun | receiver [receivers](telephone handset) |
叫醒電話 noun | wake-up call [wake-up calls](morning courtesy call) |
可視電話 noun | videophone(type of telephone) |
台山話 proper noun | Hoisanese(a dialect of Cantonese) |