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说话 shuō huà to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word
传奇 chuán qí legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
楼房 lóu fáng a building of two or more stories / CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4]
鸡汤 jī tāng chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul &ndash / i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
评书 píng shū pingshu, a folk art where a single performer narrates stories from history or fiction
盛传 shèng chuán widely spread / widely rumored / stories abound / (sb's exploits are) widely circulated
纳尼亚 Nà ní yà Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis
脱胎 tuō tāi to be born / (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc) / (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) / bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
端点 duān diǎn starting point or ending point (in stories etc) / end point (math)
小熊维尼 Xiǎo xióng Wéi ní Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)
话本 huà běn Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
旧闻 jiù wén old anecdote / stories passed on from former times
契诃夫 Qì hē fū Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
听书 tīng shū to listen to stories / to listen to performance of 說書|说书 / storytelling
冯梦龙 Féng Mèng lóng Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說|古今小说[Gu3 jin1 Xiao3 shuo1]
段 duàn paragraph / section / segment / stage (of a process) / classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
訹 xù to beguile with false stories
搬唇递舌 bān chún dì shé to pass on stories (idiom) / to sow dissension / to blab / to tell tales
篝火狐鸣 gōu huǒ hú míng to tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion / an uprising is afoot (idiom)
聊斋志异 Liáo zhāi Zhì yì Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[Pu2 Song1 ling2]
三侠五义 Sān xiá wǔ yì Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 / master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆
俗世奇人 sú shì qí rén Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[Feng2 Ji4 cai2]
初刻拍案惊奇 Chū kè Pāi àn Jīng qí Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
古今小说 Gǔ jīn Xiǎo shuō Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2], collection of late Ming baihua 白話|白话[bai2 hua4] tales published in 1620
唐楼 táng lóu tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)
搬口 bān kǒu to pass on stories (idiom) / to sow dissension / to blab / to tell tales
柯南·道尔  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
狐女 hú nu:3 fox lady / in folk stories, a beautiful girl who will seduce you then reveal herself as a ghost
纳尼亚传奇 Nà ní yà Chuán qí The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis
遐迹 xiá jì stories of ancient people
醒世恒言 Xǐng shì Héng yán Stories to Awaken the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2] published in 1627
重屋 chóng wū lit. multiple roof / building of several stories
世界应该更多倾听的十个故事  Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About
最佳做法和成功桉例全球网  Best Practices & Success Stories Global Network
儒勒・凡尔纳 Rú lè · Fán ěr nà Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories, author of Around the World in Eighty Days 八十天环绕地球
柯南・道尔 Kē nán · Dào ěr Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克・福爾摩斯|歇洛克・福尔摩斯
二刻拍案惊奇 Er4 kè Pāi àn Jīng qí Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
喻世明言 Yù shì Míng yán another name for 古今小說|古今小说[Gu3 jin1 Xiao3 shuo1], Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2]
坎特伯雷故事集 Kǎn tè bó lái Gù shì Jí The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[Qiao2 sou3]
坎特伯雷故事集 Kǎn tè bó léi Gù shì Jí The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[Qiao2 sou3]
柯南·道尔 Kē nán · Dào ěr Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
儒勒·凡尔纳 Rú lè · Fán ěr nà Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories
警世通言 Jǐng shì Tōng yán Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2] published in 1624
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