Research Database for the Wu Song Project






All Stock Phrases ordered by English translation

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we shall not speak more of this

...bu ti
...不題
let us postpone this and take our time to perform the story

anxia man biao
按下漫表
let us postpone X X, and let us now perform X X

anxia X X dan biao X X
按下 XX 單表 XX
speaking

bai

opened her mouth

bian kai kou
便開口
addressed her thus

bian kai yan
便開言
let us perform

biao yi biao
表一表
our performance is about

biaode shi
表得是
if you do really not know what happened next, please listen to the explanation in the following session (chapter)

bijing weizhi houlai he ru qie ting xiahui fenjie
畢竟未知後來何如且聽下回分解
I will not perform...but I will tell

bu biao...zai shuo
不表...再說
of this no more

bu zai hua xia
不在話下
as for how...please listen to the explabation of the next session (chapter)

bu zhi ...qie ting xia hui fenjie
不知...且聽下回分解
if you do not know what happened next, please listen to the explanations in the next session

bu zhi hou shi ruhe qie ting xia hui fenjie
不知後事如何且聽下回分解
if not......that's the end of the story, but...

bu......bian ba, ...
不......便罷, ...
singing

chang

when we have sung this far, that is reckoned as one performance

changdao cichu suan yi duanr
唱到此處算一段兒
chou-role

chou

the song poem says

ci yue
詞曰
please, wait and let me, the storyteller, give a brief explanation

dai shuoshude lue biao jiju
待說書的略表幾句
dan-role

dan

behold/ one only saw

dan jian
但見
let us now tell only

dan shuo
單說
but just look

dan zhi jian
但只見
tell the details

dao qi xiang
道其詳
the next session X X X X follows right after

dao xia hui X X X X jin jieshang
到下回XXXX緊接上
crosses the stage

guo chang
過場
our forefathers had an admonition expressing this well

guren you jiju geyan, shuode hao
古人有幾句格言說的好
singing in choir

hechang
合唱
spoken part

hua bai
話白
the story we are performing

hua biao
話表
here our story divides

hua fen liangtou
話分兩頭
let's stop chatting

hua shao shuo
話少說
The story says

hua shuo
話說
Let's not go into boring detail

hua xiu xufan
話休絮煩
continue

jie

pose

jie

continue singing

jiechang
接唱
jing-role

jing

Dear audience, as you may have heard

kanguan tingshuo
看官聽說
mo-role

mo

No hurry!

mo mang
莫忙
backstage

nei

voice from backstage

nei sheng
內聲
look at him (audience appeal)

ni kan
你看
reciting

nian

narrator speaking

pangbai
旁白
our forefathers had some lines...

qianren you jiju...
前人有幾句...
meanwhile let’s wait performing...let’s rather perform

qie bu biao, zai biao...
且不表 在表
let's slow down a bit

qie man
且慢
meanwhile let us tell

qie shuo
且說
the end

quan wan
全完
let us resume our story

que shuo
卻說
you may ask ...

ruo wen
若問
mixed rhythm

san ban
散板
enter

shang

sheng-role

sheng

the poem says

shi yue
詩曰
a historian made a poem bewailing the event

shiguan you shi tan yue
史官有詩歎曰
poem

shipian
詩篇
now our saga returns to the true story and we shall tell it clearly

shu gui zhengzhuan shuo fenming
書歸正傳說分明
mixed rhythm

shuban
數板
it's slow in the telling, but happens in a flash

shuo shi chi, na shi kuai shuo shi chi, na shi kuai
說時遲﹐那時快
storyteller

shuohuade
說話的
storyteller, why did X X not...?

shuohuade, X X yin he bu ...
說話的﹐ XX 因何不
storyteller

shuoshude
說書的
if you, honorable audience, do not believe, please, listen to the example that I shall now sing for you

tangruo shi zhujun yao bu xin, nin ting wo yanchang yige bangyang
倘若是諸君要不信﹐您聽我演唱一個榜樣
speaking in chorus

tong bai
仝白
exeunt

tong xia
仝下
What will happen after this? Please, listen to the next story.

wang xia zenmeyang, er ben nin zai ting
往下怎麼樣﹐二本您再聽
in fact I have a few verse-lines in praise

wo dao you jiju zan ta
我倒有幾句贊牠
martial sheng-role

wu sheng
武生
x x rhythm

x x ban
X X 板
x x melody

x x diao
X X 調
exit, exeunt

xia

in the next round

xia yi hui
下一回
in the next session the story continues about

xia yi hui ...zai xu shang
下一回......在敘上
no need for empty conversation

xianyan suiyu bu yao (duo) jiang
閑言碎語不要 (多)講
Xipi mixed rhythm

Xipi san ban
西皮散板
soon half a month had passed

xunsu guangyin banyue duo
迅速光陰半月多
let me tell in this session

yan yi hui
言一回
I cannot mention all these persons here and now

yi shi zhi ren shuobujin
一時之人說不盡
intro

yin

there is an old ballad describing it

you (yi)pian gu feng (yipian) dan dao
有(一)篇古風(一篇)單道
It was predestined

you fen jiao
有分教
when there is a story to tell it is long; when there is no story to tell it is short

you hua ji chang, wu hua ji duan
有話即長﹐ 無話即短
there is an old ballad in proof of this

you pian gu feng wei zheng
有篇古風為証
somebody might ask

you ren yao wen
有人要問
there is a poem in proof of this

you shi wei zheng
有詩為証
once again let me perform

zai biaobiao
再表表
this was the first part about X X

zhe shi X X yige duan
這是 X X 一個段
In this round

zhe yi hui
這一回
In this round I have offerede you respectfully the episode of XXXX

zhe yi hui XXXX wo feng jing
這一回 XXXX 我奉敬
let's perform first

zheli xian biao
這裡先表
truly, so it was

zhen nai shi
真乃是
indeed

zheng shi
正是
but to know who it really was, you must listen to the explanation in the next session

zheng shi shen ren qie ting xia hui fenjie
正是甚人且聽下回分解
on this side

zhexiang
這廂
let us postpone the chapter about these events

zhezhang shiqing an yi bi
這章事情按一筆
it was destined

zhi jiao
直教
let us just tell

zhi shuo
只說
just listen

zhi ting
只聽
stop talking

zhu kou
住口
introduction

zhutou
注頭
listeners

zhuwei
諸位
walks along the side of the stage

zou bian
走邊
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