粵

深sam1山saan1

sam1 saan1shēn shān

English

  1. deep in the mountains
  2. the depths of a mountain; usually used to describe a largely unpopulated and unvisited area isolated from the external world

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 偏僻嘅山;一般都係與世隔絕,冇乜人住、冇乜人去嘅地方

Examples

  • 深山野人

    a barbarian living deep in the woods

  • 佢喺深山隱居咗二十年,過嘅係閒雲野鶴嘅生活。

    He led a secluded life deep in the woods for 20 years, free from the burdens of our troubled world. (literally: living the life of a drifting cloud or a wild crane)

  • 嘩,間草屋咁靚,要我入去做一個月深山野人我唔拘呀。

    Whoa, that's one beautiful hut! I wouldn't mind living there completely cut off from the world for a month.

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

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