街談巷議
Chinese
street | to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname |
lane; alley | criticize; discuss | ||
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trad. (街談巷議) | 街 | 談 | 巷 | 議 | |
simp. (街谈巷议) | 街 | 谈 | 巷 | 议 |
Pronunciation
Idiom
街談巷議
- town talk; street gossip
- 我初到長沙時,會到各方面的人,聽到許多的街談巷議。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Wǒ chū dào Chángshā shí, huì dào gè fāngmiàn de rén, tīng dào xǔduō de jiētánxiàngyì. [Pinyin]
- Soon after my arrival in Changsha, I met all sorts of people and picked up a good deal of gossip.
我初到长沙时,会到各方面的人,听到许多的街谈巷议。 [MSC, simp.]
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