成sing4立laap6

English

1. to establish
2. to establish; to found; to set up
3. to set up
4. (of views) to be tenable
5. to be tenable
6. to hold water

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 將原本冇嘅嘢變成有，多數指群體、組織、機構
2. 觀點能夠維持有效，冇被反駁到

Examples

• 罪名成立

  to be found guilty

• 香港大學喺1911年成立。

  The University of Hong Kong was founded in 1911. ----

• 你呢種講法有邏輯謬誤，並唔成立。

  What you say has logical fallacies and thus is not tenable.

• 政府舊年就呢個議題成立專責委員會。

  The government established an ad-hoc committee for the issue last year.

• 可能會出現咗強大嘅香港人社區，導致埋社區組織嘅成立，支持文化上嘅交流、社會服務，同埋倡導英國香港人嘅權利。

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• 为了调查物价，成立了一个委员会。

  A committee was constituted to investigate prices.

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• 有些情況之下，這條規則不能成立。

  There are some cases where the rule does not hold good.

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• 他成立了自己的公司的時候還不到二十歲。

  He was still in his teens when he founded a company.

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