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LESSON XXXVI (continued).

together.

uá thòiⁿ-chí-kâi mâuⁿ-pēⁿ kâi-uân-iû, sĩ
&c, I consider that the origin of this trouble is, &c.
chhok-tie̍h-khiàu,
stir up his faculties.
khiàu-thâu mé,
hi faculties are quick.
khiàu-thâu mān,
his faculties are slow.
ũ-che̍k-kiãⁿ tõ-lí chhok-tie̍h-uá kâi-khiàu,
a truth suggests itself to me.
chhui-chhut nguân-thâu kâi-ì-sṳ̀,
search out the original idea.
chhui-lũn chhut lâi,
to infer out,
chhui-lũn,
to infer; an inference.
só-chhui-lũn chhut--lâi-kâi,
something that was reached by inference.
káng-kiù kàu-thiet-tói,
to explain things to the bottom.
uá káng-kiù chí-kâi-chúi,
I am going to explain this (thing called) water.
sṳ̄ ũ-hṳ ũ-si̍t,
things have a shadow and a substance.
kiù-bûa,
to condense (in a discourse); a synthesis.
thiah-khui,
to expand or amplify (a subject); to analyse.
i kâi-kháu-keng,
his statements.
liãm-thâu,
thought; idea.
i kâi-ì-sṳ̀,
his purpose; his idea.
uá sim-siẽⁿ,
I think.
sim-liãm,
thoughts.
toaⁿ-toaⁿ sĩ-chí kâi-ì,
this idea only.
to-sim to-gî,
much perplexity.
chiá sĩ-sit-kṳ̃,
this is true testimony.
phou-pâi,
arrangement.
phou-pâi ì-sṳ̀,
to arrange his thoughts.
phou-pâi bô-mih-hó,
the arrangement is not good.
phou-pâi tie̍h-ũ-chôiⁿ, ũ-tang, ũ-ãu,
the arrangement must have a beginning a middle and an end.
sie-liên-lo̍k,
mutually connected; interdependent.
chí-nõ-kù bô-sie-chiap,
these two sentences have no connection.
ũ-sĩ-mih kuàn-chhùan?
what relationship is there between them?
bô--put-kùe sĩ-soiⁿ-ãu tiāⁿ-tiāⁿ,
none, except that one is before and the other after.
ha̍h-chò che̍k-ẽ-tàⁿ,
sum them up together.
liāu-phû liāu-phû,
to intimate.