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Rh :; 人人都在說
 * everybody is talking about it.
 * 盡人道
 * to fulfil the duties of the human relationships.
 * 沒人烟的地方
 * where there are no human habitations.
 * 做紙人人
 * to make paper effigies or manikins.
 * 人參
 * the plant ginseng (extravagantly regarded as a medicine).

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 * 仇
 * 兩家成仇
 * the two families have become enemies.
 * 有恩須當報無仇莫結寃
 * if you have received a favour repay it, but where there is no enmity do not stir up a quarrel.


 * 仆
 * 仆倒在地
 * to fall face downward on the ground.
 * 仆倒睡
 * to sleep face downward.
 * 仆起的
 * hollow side downward; inverted.
 * 把那個盌仆倒
 * turn that basin mouth downward.


 * 仁
 * 他心裏仁慈
 * he is compassionate.
 * 手脚不仁
 * hands and feet paralysed; lit. not fulfilling their duties.
 * 冲桃仁澄水
 * crush peach kernels and put them in the water to clear it.


 * 仍
 * 仍然不改
 * as before he will not change; still unrepentant.


 * 今
 * 今夜脫了鞋和韈不知明日穿不穿
 * we cast off shoes and hose this day, and know not if we'll don them next.
 * 我們如今走不得了
 * we can't walk now-a-days!
 * 當今皇上
 * the present emperor.


 * 仄
 * 平聲仄聲
 * the even and inlined tones.
 * 仄起身子過
 * to sidle past, or through.

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 * 仗
 * 打勝仗
 * to fight a winning battle; to gain a victory.

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