仙人
sin1 jan4xiān rén
English
- Daoist immortal
- celestial being
- People who have ascended to godhood via Taoist spiritual practices, "demigods".
粵語 — Cantonese
- 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