Meanings

telephone switching station

telecommunications company

to begin talking

serious topic (of conversation)

legendary literature

conversation on worldly affairs

policy of using dialogue instead of confrontation

novel written in colloquial Chinese

being much talked about

curiously enough

to have a talk

dialogue corpus (dialog)

phone conference

tall story

matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)

suspicious phone call

urgent phone call

too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds)

landline telephone

Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty)