深山
sam1 saan1shēn shān
English
- deep in the mountains
- the depths of a mountain; usually used to describe a largely unpopulated and unvisited area isolated from the external world
粵語 — Cantonese
- 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