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khvoax laang bøbagte [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

look down upon others

看不起人家; 看人無目地

khvoax laang mxkhie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

treat a person with contempt

看不起人家; 看人未起; 瞧不起人

khvoax laang-thaubin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

rely on others and have to watch their every expression

依賴他人; 看人頭面

DFT (4)

Bagciw koax tawkaix, khvoax laang mih tø aix. 🗣 (u: Bak'ciw koax tao'kaix, khvoax laang mih tø aix.) 目睭掛斗概，看人物就愛。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

眼睛掛著平斗的木概 ， 看到別人的東西就想要 。 用來形容人過於貪心 。 以前用 「 斗 」 來測量穀物豆類等東西的份量 ， 斗概是一長形木條 ， 用來把斗口高出的部分撥平以得到準確的量 。 販售商人的習慣是只往內撥 、 不往外撥 ， 有招財之意 。 所以用眼睛掛著斗概 ， 來比喻想把別人的東西納為己有的貪婪心態 。

Cviuxsvoaf khvoax svoasix, jibmngg khvoax laang ix. 🗣 (u: Cviu'svoaf khvoax svoaf'six, jip'mngg khvoax laang ix.) 上山看山勢，入門看人意。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

上山要觀察山勢 ， 進門要觀察主人心意 。 指做人要隨時注意環境的變化 ， 懂得察顏觀色 ， 行事才能合宜 。

Khvoax laang ciah baq, mxthafng khvoax laang siøphaq./Khvoax laang ciah baq, mxthafng khvoax laang svaphaq. 🗣 (u: Khvoax laang ciah baq, m'thafng khvoax laang siøf/svaf'phaq.) 看人食肉，毋通看人相拍。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

寧可看人吃肉 ， 也不要看人打架 。 誡人遠離是非之地 ， 以免遭受池魚之殃 。

Laang teq zøx, thvy teq khvoax./Laang teq zøex, thvy teq khvoax. 🗣 (u: Laang teq zøx, thvy teq khvoax. Laang teq zøx/zøex, thvy teq khvoax.) 人咧做，天咧看。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人在做 ， 天在看 。 做事情應憑著自己的良心 ， 不管好事壞事 ， 上天都在看著 。 比喻天理昭昭 ， 報應不爽 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association. Syllable segmentation in progress.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), Maryknoll (2001), and other dictionaries.

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.