不bat1堪ham1

English

1. cannot bear
2. cannot bear; cannot endure
3. cannot stand
4. extremely; used after an adjective, to indicate it is so intense that is intolerable.
5. utterly
6. extremely

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 抵受唔住，唔能夠承受
2. 加喺形容詞後面，形容程度極高，令人難以忍受。

Examples

• 一間破爛不堪嘅舊屋

  a dilapidated old house

• 佢講咗一啲不堪入耳嘅説話。

  He has said something revolting (=intolerable to the ear). ----

• 我们还是脆弱不堪。

  We're still vulnerable.

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• 她的衣服破旧不堪。

  Her clothes are worn out.

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• 薩米這段不堪入目的婚外情毀了他的婚姻。

  Sami's sordid love affair destroyed his marriage.

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• 这部发生在破旧不堪小镇的救赎与希望之歌，是南非选送今年奥斯卡的作品，并入围了最佳外语片五强角逐。

  A gritty story of redemption and hope in a ramshackle urban township is the South African entry for this year's Academy Awards and one of the five finalists for Best Foreign Language Film.

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