水流柴
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English
- pieces of wood flowing on water, the people live by the shore or on boat would pick them up and sun dry them to use as fuel ----
- extended meaning : a derogative calling of the Boat People, means they have no house and occupation, no property and farm, just like a piece of wood flowing everywhere on the water. ----
- the passers-by of one's life like pieces of wood flowing on water
粵語 — Cantonese
- 隨水流飄浮嘅木頭,喺岸邊同船上嘅人會執嚟晒乾當柴用
- 引申義:指長年住喺舢板上嘅水上人,係一種貶稱,意思係無家無業,無田無產,好似水上嘅柴片一樣到處漂流
- 引申義:生命中嘅過客,萍水相逢
Examples
老舉眾人妻,人客水流柴
Prostitute is the wife of numorous men, customers pass through their life like pieces of wood flowing on water
Sources: rime-cantonese, synthesized, words.hk