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[wangfeel]

Can anyone give me a conversation?
I don't know when to use it. Is it used much?
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"Watch flower flowering and searing
Stay or leave has no sense
Clouds curling and stretching
Like or dislike is no surprising " from old Chinese saying

[bud]

The only place I've ever seen it used is in the references of a scholarly paper. I've never heard it spoken.

[wangfeel]

I heard it from "good will hunting" movie

Ibid can mean "like what I said before" right?

Maybe someone don't want to repeat what he already said or something familiar with what he had said, then can say "Ibid, my friend."

Am I right?
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"Watch flower flowering and searing
Stay or leave has no sense
Clouds curling and stretching
Like or dislike is no surprising " from old Chinese saying

[advoca]

ibid is not used in speech. It is used in published material where you are quoting a source from more than one place.

Ibid means "in the same book or passage."

You might see at the back of the article:

Chinese Dragons, Roy Bates, Oxford Unoiversity Press, Chapter 3. p 32

ibid; Chapter 5. p. 45

[bud]

Ah, so apparently 'ibid' has been turned into slang, perhaps by the author of "Good Will Hunting." Your interpretation is correct, Wangfeel, as that is roughly what it means when used in writing. But be warned, neither Advoca nor I have ever heard it used even as slang. I don't think it's very popular, probably because it is a little obscure.