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The sales volume of lipstick gives a clue as to how prosperous the economy is. This sentence may be used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. Level: 4 |
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| 景氣好壞可從口紅銷售量看出端倪 | |
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景氣
ging2 hei3 - prosperity; boom 好壞 hou2 waai6 - [n] good and bad; advantageous and disadvantageous 可 ho2 hak1 - can; approve; need; but 從 cung4 sung1 - follow; engage in; from; entourage 口紅 hau2 hung4 - 國 lipstick 銷售 siu1 sau6 - market for sale 量 loeng4 loeng6 - measure; deliberate; amount; estimate 看出 hon3 ceot1 - to make out; to see 端倪 dyun1 ngai4 - a clue |
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