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LESSON XXXVI (continued).
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- bô-lí à kàu ũ-lí,
- being without reason, to argue until he has, i.e. specious argumentation.
- bô-lí lūan-tãu,
- without reason and yet babbling about doctrine.
- bô-lí kāng i piẽn-poh,
- no reasons wherewith to argue with him.
- chièⁿ-seⁿ kâi tõ-lí chhông-lâi m̄-pat-thiaⁿ,
- such doctrine we have never hitherto heard.
- chí-kâi tõ-lí ĩ sin kâi tõ-lí,
- this doctrine is a new one.
- chí-kâi tõ-lí sĩ-ha̍h sĩ-mih iēⁿ-nâng?
- this doctrine is suitable to what kind of people?
- chí-kâi tõ-lí hó thok-chhéⁿ sĩ-mih-nâng?
- this doctrine may be used to arouse what class of people?
- m̄-sĩ chiàⁿ-lí--kâi,
- it is not a correct principle.
- in-lí lũn-kàu nâng sũn-ho̍k,
- use arguments until people submit.
- sueh,
- to explain.
- kói,
- to unfold, kói-sueh, to unfold and explain.
- sueh-mêng-pe̍h,
- to explain clearly.
- sueh m̄-mêng,
- your explanation is not clear.
- sueh chièⁿ-seⁿ chiũ-sĩ mêng-pe̍h, in explaining it so,
- it is clear.
- bô chí-kâi sueh
- is no such explanation; not likely.
- sueh-chhut i kâi sêng-chiēⁿ khí-ẽ,
- to explain its connection with what precedes and follows.
- sueh lân-ló,
- explain a little, or explain briefly.
- sueh iáu-chhién,
- to explain rather superficially.
- chiàⁿ-sueh, húan-sueh,
- a direct and an inverted form of expression.
- siáu-sueh,
- a minute explanation.
- o̍h siáu-sueh,
- hard to explain minutely.
- lṳ́ hó sueh iáu-khuah--chē,
- explain it a little more fully.
- lṳ́ hó sueh sòi-siâng,
- explain it in detail.
- pat sueh--kùe,
- it has been explained.
- thiah-sueh,
- explain in detail (word by word, or clause by clause).
- ha̍p-sueh,
- explain in general.
- sueh-khui,
- to enlarge the scope of the explanation.
- sueh-bûa,
- to contract the„ scope of„ the„ explanation„.
- hû-sueh,
- an erroneous explanation.
- pau; pau-kuat; pau-hâm,
- to contain; to involve.
- pau-kuat ke kâi-ì,
- it contains another idea.
- pau-kuat tõ-chí,
- it is contained here in this.
- pau-kuat chōi-chōi,
- it involves a great deal.
- pau-kuat iáu-chhién,
- it implies rather less—not much.