superfluous words; nonsense; rubbish (n.)
HSK 5
Traditional
廢話
Radicals
Stroke order
Examples
请不要说废话，直接进入主题。 qǐng bú yào shuō fèihuà, zhíjiē jìnrù zhǔtí - Please don’t talk nonsense, get straight to the point.
他整天说些无聊的废话。 tā zhěngtiān shuō xiē wúliáo de fèihuà - He talks nonsense all day.
这些废话浪费了我们的时间。 zhèxiē fèihuà làngfèi le wǒmen de shíjiān - This nonsense wasted our time.
开会时请不要说废话。 kāihuì shí qǐng bú yào shuō fèihuà - Please don’t talk nonsense during the meeting.
他总是用废话掩饰自己的错误。 tā zǒngshì yòng fèihuà yǎnshì zìjǐ de cuòwù - He always uses nonsense to cover up his mistakes.
Characters
话 huà - words, speech; dialect; to speak about |
废 fèi - give up, abandon, abolish; dethrone; useless, invalid; disabled; dispirited |