Chinese | English |
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我不會講官話 phrase | I don't speak English(I don't speak (fill with the name of the current foreign language)) |
我可以用你的電話嗎? phrase | can I use your phone(can I use your phone?) |
或諸如此類的話 phrase | or words to that effect(used to indicate a paraphrase) |
手提電話 noun | mobile phone(portable telephone) |
打趣的話 noun | pleasantry [pleasantries](jest) |
打電話 verb | call [called, calling, calls](to contact by telephone) phone [phoned, phoning, phones](to call (someone) on the telephone) telephone [telephoned, telephoning, telephones](to call someone) |
承認說錯話 verb | eat one's words(regret something said) |
拿起電話 verb | pick up the phone(to pick up the receiver of a telephone to answer a call) |
接電話 verb | pick up the phone(to pick up the receiver of a telephone to answer a call) |
插話 verb | get a word in edgewise(to break into or participate in a conversation) |
換句話說 preposition | in other words(stated or interpreted another way) |
換句話說 adverb | that is(in other words) |
新話 /xīnhuà/ proper noun | Newspeak(fictional language) |
旋轉號盤電話機 noun | rotary phone(rotary dial telephone) |
日本話 proper noun | Japanese(Japanese language) |
普通話 noun | Mandarin [mandarins](Standard Mandarin, see also: Chinese) |
普通話 proper noun | Putonghua(the official language of the People's Republic of China, see also: Mandarin) |
普通話歌曲 noun | Mandopop(Mandarin pop music) |
會話 noun | conversation [conversations](expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people) dialogue(conversation or other discourse between individuals) discourse [discourses](verbal exchange or conversation) talk [talks](conversation) |
會話手冊 noun | phrase book(book of everyday expressions and vocabulary) |
步話機 noun | walkie-talkie [walkie-talkies](portable radio) |
武漢話 proper noun | Wuhanese(the dialect of Wuhan) |
氣話 noun | words(angry debate or conversation) |
江西話 proper noun | Gan(one of Sinitic languages) |
海南話 proper noun | Hainanese(group of Min dialects spoken in Hainan) |
湖南話 proper noun | Xiang(one of the divisions of the Chinese language) |
潮州話 proper noun | Teochew(one of the divisions of the Chinese language) |
濟州話 /Jìzhōu huà/ proper noun | Jeju(lect) |
無意中說出心裡話 noun | Freudian slip(subconscious mistake in speech or action) |
甜蜜情話 noun | sweet nothings(insubstantial or romantic words that are only meant to flatter, woo or seduce) |
白話 noun | colloquialism [colloquialisms](colloquial expression) |
白話字 noun | Pe̍h-ōe-jī(a Latin alphabet-based orthography for Min Nan) Pha̍k-fa-sṳ(a Latin alphabet-based orthography for Hakka) |
真心話大冒險 noun | truth or dare(game where players perform a dare or answer a question) |
磁卡電話 noun | cardphone(public telephone that accepts cards rather than coins) |