Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kiang
kiang
[edit]- liu-kiang;
- to slip the halter and run away.
- cē m̄ cai kwn, cū khṳt i liu-kiang khṳ̀;
- as soon as one's attention is turned away, he slips off.
- to pâk tŏ̤ kò̤, cò̤-nî ŏi khṳt i liu-kiang khṳ̀?
- As he was tied up, how is it that he could take him-
self off like that ?
- kiang-si;
- a body in a trance.
- kiang chôiⁿ;
- silkworms, stiffened as they are just before weaving the cocoons.
- hṳ́ kò̤ chut kâi kiang-si ŏi hāi nâng;
- that place produces a species of corpse, which does not suffer corruption, and which draws life from people.
- kiang-kài;
- the frontier.
- i sǹg sĭ hong kiang tăi-chîn;
- he is the high officer in charge of the frontier.
- míen-kíang i khṳ̀ cò̤;
- constrain him to go and do it.
- sĭ míen-kíang kâi, m̄ sĭ cṳ̆-jîen kâi;
- it was by compulsion, not of free will.
- màiⁿ khṳ̀ kíang khîu;
- do not seek it by underhand ways.
- pńg-pńg sĭ bŏi cò̤, míen-kíang cò̤ kàu hó̤;
- though really unable to do it he nerved himself up to the accomplishment of it.
- thĕng khî cṳ̆-jîen, màiⁿ khṳ̀ míen-kíang i;
- let it go till it happens of itself, do not go and force it.
- i pńg-pńg m̄ hàuⁿ, sĭ úa kíang kàu i hàuⁿ;
- he was himself unwilling, but I prevailed on him against his inclination.
- khí-cho̤ sĭ míen-kíang cò̤, kàu kú cū cṳ̆-jîen;
- in the beginning it is done perforce, but afterward it goes on as a matter of course.
- kĭang khí ceng-sîn lâi lí;
- rouse up your energies and do it.
- i jĭm kĭang, kĭang m̄ khí;
- tried to prevail on him, but without success.
- khak-khó kĭang khí sin lâi kio i phûeh ūe;
- persisted in endeavoring to get up and speak with him.
- cí kâi kĭang kùe hṳ́ kâi;
- this is superior to that.