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打daa2邊bin1爐lou4

simp打边炉
daa2 bin1 lou4dǎ biān lú

English

  1. (Cantonese) to eat hot pot
  2. to have a hotpot meal, i.e. to put raw ingredients into simmering soup or water to cook
  3. hot pot
  4. to smoke with several people around an ashtray

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 火鍋;煮食方法嘅一種,將啲生嘅食物放落滾緊嘅湯或者水烚熟嚟食
  2. 比喻一班人圍住一個煙灰缸或附有煙灰缸嘅垃圾桶食煙;因為個個隻手好似用筷子攁下攁下同埋人群中間有煙升起,狀似一班人圍埋一齊打邊爐而引申出呢個意思

Examples

  • 凍成咁,今晚我哋去打邊爐!

    It's so cold. Let's go have hotpot tonight! ----

  • 午飯時間外面垃圾桶有好多人打邊爐。

    There are loads of people smoking around the bin outside during lunch time.

  • 今晚咁人齊,不如打邊爐啦!又易準備,又可以圍埋傾偈。

    Everybody's here, why don't we have hotpot tonight? It's easy to prepare and we can chat around the pot.

  • 政府實施室內禁煙之後,好多人都要企喺街度圍住個垃圾桶打邊爐。

    People started smoking around rubbish bins on the street since the government banned indoor smoking.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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