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Quotedonal100 How to translate 君子遠庖廚?"A gentleman should stays away from kitchen"Confucianism (儒家) invoke the term gentleman (君子) a lot in their advices on how a man should conduct himself. This...
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[big5.hwjyw.com]The moral of the original story was: " Good men have mercy, however, there are times when a good man need to put emotion aside in order to finish something that has to be done. " stay...
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I found this sentence online and it was presented as a saying about eating lychees in good weather? 夏蟬叫荔枝熟? The literal meaning is a summer cicada calls the lychee ripe? From what I read in Chinese...
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> 夏蟬叫荔枝熟"When the summer cicadas are buzzing, the lychee is ripen."This is just a catchy saying like "April shower brings May flower" or "秋風起、三蛇肥" ("When the autumn wind blows, the Three Snakes...
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How would you translate the sentence, "You lie lousily." in Cantonese? My attempt was 你爛爆咁講大話。爛爆 for lousy, and 咁 to make it an adverb. My mom said this doesn't work.
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QuoteMr. K > 夏蟬叫荔枝熟"When the summer cicadas are buzzing, the lychee is ripen."This is just a catchy saying like "April shower brings May flower" or "秋風起、三蛇肥" ("When the autumn wind blows, the Three...
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So I guess you would say to someone who is lying lousily "使銅銀夾大聲." But how would you translate "you lie lousily" literally?
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> You lie lousily.If you are angry at someone lying to you and you want to yell back, the simplest response in Cantonese is 你亂講 or 你亂噏 , even though both expressions just mean "You are just making...
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“You still don’t get it! Do I really need to spell it out for you?”
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你(you)要(want)我(me)點(to point out / to explain )到(particle- until/ to the point of)明(clear)咩(particle- question)
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I get it now. 點明 is a word which means: point out; put one's finger on
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Never heard of 爛爆 in Canto. But if 爛爆咁 is replaced by 眼都唔䁪噉, then the whole sentence makes sense and is fully grammatical.
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> 點明 is a word which means: point out; put one's finger onYes, "put one's finger on" is the (kind of) equivalent expression in English. However, the original meaning behind the Cantonese version of...
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> "你爛爆咁講大話" grammatical though?Personally I have never heard of the phrase 爛爆. I suspect the word in this context may actually be 懶爆. It is a journalist slang to call a piece of news 爆 (explosive)....
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