街談巷議
Chinese
street to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surnamelane; alley criticize; discuss 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 (1991). 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.]