| 连篇累牍 | lián piān lěi dú | (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom); verbose | |
| 文牍 | wén dú | paperwork; official documents and letters; (old) secretary | |
| 文牍主义 | wén dú zhǔ yì | red tape | |
| 长篇累牍 | cháng piān lěi dú | (of a text) very lengthy (idiom) | |
| 书牍 | shū dú | letter; wooden writing strips (arch.); general term for letters and documents |
| 1 | But in dozens of interviews, young Japanese brought him up again and again as a way of explaining their generation' s malaise. | |
| 2 | The wordy speeches were gone now, replaced by rare, concise interventions reserved only for topics of sufficient weight. | |
| 3 | Russia's Kremlin-controlled television has run lavish coverage of Medvedev's daily activities as first deputy prime minister. | |
| 4 | The dwarves have lengthy sagas , eddas, and histories concerning their deeds, wars, and adventures, but these are not shared with the outside world. | |
| 5 | Henig's lengthy piece is impressive in its scope of developmental psychology and in its sensitivity to the question of whether 20-somethings need more help than we thought. |