一言
Characters and words in 一言
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
words / speech / to say / to talk
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Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
Words with 一言
hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
(sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old) / having things decided by the will of a single individual / autocratic rule / (contrasted with 群言堂[qun2 yan2 tang2])
one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell
one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice / words of enormous weight
lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
Sentences with 一言
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