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baibut jinzaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: baai'but jiin'zaai [[...]][i#] [p.]

bury one's talent, don't use a subordinate's ability to good advantage

埋沒人才

benggi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: beeng'gi [[...]][i#] [p.]

one's name, the name as opposed to reality or substance, the outward reason for doing something

名義

• eng... ee benggi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: eng... ee beeng'gi [[...]][i#] [p.]
  under the name of...
  用 ...的名義

• zaisarn voa thaethaix ee benggi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zaai'sarn voa thaix'thaix ee beeng'gi [[...]][i#] [p.]
  transfer assets to his wife
  財產換太太的名義

• benggixsiong ee angbor [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: beeng'gi'siong ee afng'bor [[...]][i#] [p.]
  man and wife in name only
  名義上的夫妻

bozaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: boo'zaai [[...]][i#] [p.]

scheme to acquire wealth

謀財

• bozaai haixbeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: boo'zaai hai'beng [[...]][i#] [p.]
  assassinate someone and steal his possessions, seek wealth at the expense of another's life
  謀財害命

zaigoaan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zaai'goaan [[...]][i#] [p.]

source of revenue, financial resources

財源

• Bøo zaigoaan thafng siulie serngtngg. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Bøo zaai'goaan thafng siw'lie sexng'tngg. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  We have no source of income with which to repair the church.
  沒有財源可修理聖堂。

• zaigoaan honghux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zaai'goaan hofng'hux [[...]][i#] [p.]
  abundant sources of wealth
  財源豐富

za'bofkviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zaf'bor'kviar [[...]][i#] [p.]

daughter

女兒

• Za'bofkviar kax lauxbør tngfzaai. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zaf'bor'kviar kax lau'bør tngr'zaai. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  No substitute for experience (Lit. Can a daughter teach her mother how to cut the umbilical cord?)
  女兒教母親接生,班門弄斧

zaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zaai (to'zaai) [[...]][i#] [p.]

navel

臍,肚臍

• tngfzaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: tngr'zaai [[...]][i#] [p.]
  cut the navel string at birth of infant
  接生

• tuzaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: tw'zaai [[...]][i#] [p.]
  two people testing the strength if each other by pushing against one another with a wooden bar or pole placed against the body of each near the navel
  比力

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