Written genres for readingshumian duwuxingde zhonglei
書面讀物性的種類
Novel
zhanghui xiaoshuo
章回小說
Written genres for reading| 詩曰 | shi yue | the poem says |
| 話說 | hua shuo | The story says |
| 不在話下 | bu zai hua xia | of this no more |
| 話分兩頭 | hua fen liangtou | here our story divides |
| 有詩為証 | you shi wei zheng | there is a poem in proof of this |
| 只說 | zhi shuo | let us just tell |
| 正是 | zheng shi | indeed |
| 但見 | dan jian | behold/ one only saw |
| 說時遲﹐那時快 | shuo shi chi, na shi kuai shuo shi chi, na shi kuai | it's slow in the telling, but happens in a flash |
| 有(一)篇古風(一篇)單道 | you (yi)pian gu feng (yipian) dan dao | there is an old ballad describing it |
| 正是甚人且聽下回分解 | zheng shi shen ren qie ting xia hui fenjie | but to know who it really was, you must listen to the explanation in the next session |
| 說話的﹐ XX 因何不 | shuohuade, X X yin he bu ... | storyteller, why did X X not...? |
| 直教 | zhi jiao | it was destined |
| 有分教 | you fen jiao | It was predestined |