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LESSON XXXVI (continued).
together.
- uá thòiⁿ-chí-kâi mâuⁿ-pēⁿ kâi-uân-iû, sĩ
- &c, I consider that the origin of this trouble is, &c.
- chhok-tie̍h-khiàu,
- stir up his faculties.
- khiàu-thâu mé,
- hi faculties are quick.
- khiàu-thâu mān,
- his faculties are slow.
- ũ-che̍k-kiãⁿ tõ-lí chhok-tie̍h-uá kâi-khiàu,
- a truth suggests itself to me.
- chhui-chhut nguân-thâu kâi-ì-sṳ̀,
- search out the original idea.
- chhui-lũn chhut lâi,
- to infer out,
- chhui-lũn,
- to infer; an inference.
- só-chhui-lũn chhut--lâi-kâi,
- something that was reached by inference.
- káng-kiù kàu-thiet-tói,
- to explain things to the bottom.
- uá káng-kiù chí-kâi-chúi,
- I am going to explain this (thing called) water.
- sṳ̄ ũ-hṳ ũ-si̍t,
- things have a shadow and a substance.
- kiù-bûa,
- to condense (in a discourse); a synthesis.
- thiah-khui,
- to expand or amplify (a subject); to analyse.
- i kâi-kháu-keng,
- his statements.
- liãm-thâu,
- thought; idea.
- i kâi-ì-sṳ̀,
- his purpose; his idea.
- uá sim-siẽⁿ,
- I think.
- sim-liãm,
- thoughts.
- toaⁿ-toaⁿ sĩ-chí kâi-ì,
- this idea only.
- to-sim to-gî,
- much perplexity.
- chiá sĩ-sit-kṳ̃,
- this is true testimony.
- phou-pâi,
- arrangement.
- phou-pâi ì-sṳ̀,
- to arrange his thoughts.
- phou-pâi bô-mih-hó,
- the arrangement is not good.
- phou-pâi tie̍h-ũ-chôiⁿ, ũ-tang, ũ-ãu,
- the arrangement must have a beginning a middle and an end.
- sie-liên-lo̍k,
- mutually connected; interdependent.
- chí-nõ-kù bô-sie-chiap,
- these two sentences have no connection.
- ũ-sĩ-mih kuàn-chhùan?
- what relationship is there between them?
- bô--put-kùe sĩ-soiⁿ-ãu tiāⁿ-tiāⁿ,
- none, except that one is before and the other after.
- ha̍h-chò che̍k-ẽ-tàⁿ,
- sum them up together.
- liāu-phû liāu-phû,
- to intimate.