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LESSON XXXVI (continued).
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- bô-tháu-khùi kâi-mue̍h tò-chò ũ seⁿ-miāⁿ kâi-mue|h lâi tàⁿ,
- to speak of an inanimate thing as if animate, i.e. to personify.
- Sai-nái-suaⁿ sĩ pí-jũ hiēn-chãi kâi-sṳ̄,
- Mt. Sinai illustrates the things of the present.
- chang ne̍k-thói kâi-sṳ̄ lâi pí-jũ sim-leng kâi,
- take the affairs of the body to illustrate the things of the spirit.
- chiang-sòi lâi pí tōa--kâi,
- use the small to illustrate the large.
- íⁿ-sòi khài-ki̍p tōa,
- take the small and symbolize the large.
- pí chá-ji̍t--kâi iáu mêng-pe̍h,
- as compared with yesterday he is more clear.
- piáu-iēⁿ,
- a symbol; illustration.
- piáu-hō,
- a symbol;„ illustration.„
- siáu-iáⁿ,
- a type; a shadow.
- sái,
- to cause.
- só sái--kâi,
- that which is caused.
- sái-kàu,
- to cause to come to pass.
- sái-ēng,
- to make use of.
- àiⁿ sái-nâng mêng-hiáu,
- will cause people to understand.
- tì-kàu,
- so that; to the end that.
- i-kâi tì-khí,
- its beginning; original cause of anything.
- só-íⁿ,
- therefore; the why of anything; sequence.
- só-iû,
- the whence of anything.
- só-íⁿ--chiá,
- the consequences; results,
- só-íⁿ-jiên,
- the natural consequences.
- ũ-só-iû iā ũ-só-íⁿ,
- there is a cause and there is an effect.
- só-íⁿ chièⁿ-seⁿ,
- and because it is so.
- chí-kâi só-íⁿ jiên sĩ chò-nî?
- the natural consequence then is what?
- ũ sĩ-mih só-íⁿ?
- what are the consequences?
- seⁿ-jiên,
- fixed; a matter of course.
- kai-jiên,
- of necessity; a matter of course.
- ũ kâi sĩ seⁿ-jiên,
- some are so naturally.
- chièⁿ-seⁿ seⁿ íⁿ-jiên,
- it is so naturally.
- chṳ̃-jiên jṳ̂-jiên,
- of necessity so; self-existent.
- kúa-jiên; chṳ̃-jiên,
- of course.
- seⁿ-ngẽ; seⁿ tiāⁿ-tie̍h,
- fixed; definite; unalterable.
- lṳ́ kâi pēⁿ-chèng kâi só-íⁿ,
- the cause of your disease.
- lṳ́ só-íⁿ kâi pēⁿ-chèng sĩ chá-ji̍t sieⁿ-tie̍h huang,
- the cause of your disease is that yesterday you caught cold.
