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Time is as valuable as gold. However, one cannot buy time with gold. This sentence may be used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. Level: 3 |
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jat1 - number one 寸 cyun3 - inch; small; [粵] arrogant 光陰 gwong1 jam1 - time available 金 gam1 - gold 難 naan4 naan6 no4 - difficult, hard; calamity, disaster 買 maai5 - buy |
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| This sentence was added by bernard and last edited on 23rd Nov 2008 04:45 | |
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