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仙sin1人jan4

sin1 jan4xiān rén

English

  1. Daoist immortal
  2. celestial being
  3. People who have ascended to godhood via Taoist spiritual practices, "demigods".

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 喺道教入面靠住修煉成咗仙嘅人

Examples

  • 生活就像是舔仙人掌上的蜂蜜。

    Life is like licking honey off a cactus.

    Tatoeba · sadhen CC BY

  • 你的嘴唇軟綿綿的,就像仙人掌的表皮一樣。

    Your lips are soft like the surface of a cactus.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 這兩個民族都以鹿、小型獵物、囓齒動物甚至昆蟲為生,但他們的主要食物來源可能是仙人掌、牧豆和山核桃等植物。

    Both peoples lived off deer, small game, rodents, and even insects, but their main food sources were probably plants such as prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and pecan.

    Tatoeba · LeviHighway CC BY

  • 阿松話走去學仙人咁靠食霧氣維生喎,結果搞到差啲餓死,家陣畀人車咗入醫院。

    A-chung said he wanted to live like Taoist immortals, subsisting on mist. He ended up starving and had to be taken to the hospital.

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

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