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Rh :; 來川有幾代人了
 * how many generations of your family have been in Sï-chʻuan?
 * 請個代書做呈子
 * engage a copyist to write an indictment; lit. one who writes for another.
 * 代館
 * to look after a school or office for another.


 * 仔
 * 做事要仔細
 * be careful about your work.

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 * 伐
 * 砍伐樹木
 * to cut down trees.
 * 請您作伐
 * will you act as go-between, please?


 * 仿
 * same as 彷.
 * 他的話到還相仿
 * what he says is like my mind on the subject.


 * 伏
 * 俯伏在地
 * to fall down flat on the ground.
 * 他使的有埋伏
 * he is up to tricks; lit. has laid an ambush.
 * 要把他降2伏得住
 * I will humble him.
 * 三伏天
 * the "dog days."


 * 休
 * 我兩個不得罷休
 * our quarrel cannot be settled.
 * 無常一到萬事皆休
 * when the "Messenger of Death" comes, all affairs cease.
 * 吾命休矣
 * my life is ended!
 * 休想活命
 * I'll take your life! lit. don't think to live!
 * 休來見我
 * stop coming to see me.
 * 休妻子
 * to divorce a wife.


 * 伙
 * 屋裏的傢伙
 * the furniture in the house.
 * 木匠的傢伙
 * the joiner's tools.
 * 好傢伙
 * a fine fellow.
 * 生傢伙
 * half-cooked food.
 * 搭伙食
 * to board with one.


 * 任
 * 重大的責任
 * a great responsibility, or trust.
 * 革職留任
 * to degrade in rank and yet retain in office.

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