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散saan2文man4

saan2 man4saan2 man2sǎn wén

English

  1. (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse)
  2. (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
  3. prose

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 文體一種;相對韻文同駢文,比較貼近日常語言,毋須受制於聲韻、節奏或者句式結構;可以記敍、抒情、説明、議論(量詞:篇)

Examples

  • 琴日我哋寫咗我哋嘅散文。

    Yesterday we wrote our essays.

    Tatoeba · LeeSooHa CC BY

  • 我成日都唔係好明我讀散文定詩,但係有一段時間我鍾意睇詩,因為佢覺得佢話我知:「如果我唔明都冇問題。」可能係身體。

    Tatoeba CC BY

  • 昨天我們寫了我們的散文。

    Yesterday we wrote our essays.

    Tatoeba · LeeSooHa CC BY

  • 他不是诗人;他写的是散文。

    He isn't a poet; he's a prose writer.

    Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY

  • 他不是诗人;他是个散文作家。

    He isn't a poet; he's a prose writer.

    Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY

  • 我們親愛的父親每週都會給我們閱讀散文,好讓我們認識到世界的美好之處。

    Our beloved father would read us some prose every week to better our understanding of the world's beauty.

    Tatoeba · DaoSeng CC BY

  • 佢喺報紙嘅副刊寫散文。

    He writes prose for newspaper supplements.

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

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