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詼諧hui1xie2
Humorous, funny

有一天蘇東坡遇到他，就詼諧地說：“那麼 ‘滑’ 字一定是 ‘水之骨’ 囖。”

One day Su Dongpo encountered him [Wang Anshi], and humorously said, "'Slippery' must be 'the bone of water'."

**You have to know the Chinese to get this pun.

遵循zun1xun2
comply with, follow

符合fu3he2
conform to, to suit

後來有些中國學家者遵循西方集產主義的觀念，想洗刷王安石在歷史上的罪名，說他的思想 “符合現代社會主義”。

Later on some Chinese scholars followed western collectivism, and thought about erasing Wang Anshi's tarnished name, saying that his thoughts were "in accordance to modern socialism."