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| Phonetics: | ||
| Tone colors (āáǎàa): |
| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| mau4 saat3 | mau4 saat3 | murder / premeditated murder |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mau4 | mau4 | to plan / to seek / scheme | ||
| saat3 | saat3 | to kill / to murder / to fight / to weaken or reduce / to smart (dialect) / to counteract / (used after a verb) extremely |
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Det Supt Bassett was in charge of the murder enquiry.
Fisher was behind bars last night, charged with attempted murder.
The police are working on the supposition that he was murdered.
The events that led up to the murder were shown in a series of flashbacks.
He was found not guilty of murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Two skinheads were put on trial for those murders last week.
Phillips murdered his wife, but got off on a plea of insanity.
An American judge yesterday dismissed murder charges against Dr Jack Kevorkian.
Yesterday the Belgian newspaper Le Soir quoted a professor who said he witnessed the killings.
Set in contemporary Dublin, this pacy thriller features kidnapping, mayhem and murder.
