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bøzeeng-bølie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

crude and irrational

無情無理

DFT (3)

🗣 bøo thvilie 🗣 (u: bøo thvy'lie) 無天理 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

沒有天理 。 通常用在感嘆人事不公 。

🗣 Laang bøo ciaux thvilie, thvy bøo ciaux kahcie. 🗣 (u: Laang bøo ciaux thvy'lie, thvy bøo ciaux kaq'cie.) 人無照天理，天無照甲子。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人不照天理行事 ， 天不照甲子運行 。 古人以天干 、 地支搭配紀年 ， 取天干第一位 「 甲 」 與地支第一位 「 子 」 搭配成的 「 甲子 」， 來指稱自然運行的法則 。 比喻人若不按天理行事 ， 老天爺也不會依照時序運行 ； 或指對於違反常理之事的感慨 。

🗣 Liawcvii senglie bøo laang zøx, thaithaau senglie u laang zøx./Liawcvii senglie bøo laang zøex, thaithaau senglie u laang zøex. 🗣 (u: Liao'cvii sefng'lie bøo laang zøx, thaai'thaau sefng'lie u laang zøx. Liao'cvii sefng'lie bøo laang zøx/zøex, thaai'thaau sefng'lie u laang zøx/zøex.) 了錢生理無人做，刣頭生理有人做。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

賠錢的生意沒有人要做 ， 但利益當前 ， 即使是犯法會被判處死刑的生意也有人會做 。 形容無良商人為了賺錢而不擇手段 。

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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.