粵

人jan4手sau2

jan4 sau2rén shǒu

English

  1. manpower
  2. (noun) Workforce
  3. manpower
  4. staff
  5. by hand; hand-made; by oneself
  6. human hand
  7. everyone's hand

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 做嘢嘅人
  2. 自己落手做,唔依賴機器
  3. 每個人嘅手上

Examples

  • 啲糖係人手整㗎!

    The candies are hand-made. ----

  • 人手一部手提電話。

    Everyone has a mobile phone on their hands.

  • 因為人手太少,所以我哋做唔切啲嘢。

    We are unable to finish up the work on time because of the shortage of manpower. ----

  • 赫爾辛基啲海鷗會偷人手上面嘅雪糕嚟食。

    The seagulls in Helsinki steal ice cream out of people's hands.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 段碼用到大量嘅疊代同產生隨機數字。呢啲運算過程用人手做會好撈絞。

    Segment code uses a lot of iteration and generates random numbers. It would be tricky to do these computing processes manually.

    Tatoeba CC BY

  • 喺聰明嘅人手上,事情可以好簡單。 係啲扮聰明嘅平庸人士令到簡單嘅嘢變得困難。

    Tatoeba · Andrea5437 CC BY

  • 事實上,你唔需要太多人手去將丹麥文翻譯成挪威文。我都做得到。但係講丹麥文當然唔容易。

    Tatoeba CC BY

  • 我們現在人手不足。

    We need more workers.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

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

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