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 * 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.