This page needs to be proofread.
LESSON XXXVI (continued).
115
- chí-kâi îⁿ-keng piẽn-poh liáu,
- this has been confuted already.
- kàu-taⁿ iā-ũ chí-nâng lâi piẽn-poh,
- and, now, here comes this man to object.
- poh-khiet,
- to contradict.
- m̄-hó poh-khùi,
- not be disputed; must not be denied.
- màiⁿ tō poh-khùi,
- don’t be contradictory.
- siet-sái tàⁿ,
- a supposition.
- siet-mn̄g kâi-ūe,
- to suppose a question.
- siet mn̄g-tap kâi-ūe,
- to suppose a question and answer.
- siet poh-mn̄g,
- proposed an objection.
- tò-mn̄g,
- in reply.
- tò-tàⁿ,
- said in reply.
- tin-tò-thâu tàⁿ,
- say things wrong end foremost.
- úa tin-tò mn̄g-lṳ́,
- I would on the other hand ask you.
- chò úa tin-tò mn̄g-lṳ́,
- suppose I should, on the other hand, ask you.
- à,
- to dispute.
- sie-à,
- disputing together.
- à-lâi à-khṳ̀,
- disputing back and forth,
- hàuⁿ-à,
- fond of disputing.
- i tõ-à,
- he is disputing.
- à-i m̄-kùe,
- cannot out-argue him,
- thèng-à,
- argue at random.
- pek-chhiet-à,
- argued vehemently.
- à iâⁿ--i,
- beat him in argument.
- à su--i,
- beaten by him in argument.
- chōi-nâng sie-hũ à,
- many joined in the dispute.
- i à tî-kâi?
- what is he arguinyarguing about?
- i à hôiⁿ-chîⁿ kai-sṳ̄,
- he is disputing about a money payment.
- sie-cheⁿ,
- quarrelling together.
- cheⁿ-lũn,
- discussing.
- i à-tàⁿ-bô,
- he argued saying, it was not so.
- bô lṳ́-à,
- it is not for you to argue.
- m̄-hó à,
- it is not good to argue.
- put-kùe sĩ hàuⁿ-à,
- it is nothing more than fondness for dispute.
- phah-sǹg,
- to decide.
- hó-lâi phah-sǹg,
- come, let us decide.
- chò-úa phah-sǹg,
- as I should decide; if it were for me to decide.
