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Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
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chyu5 hak1, ho2 | cyu5 hak1, ho2 | preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils |
Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
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chyu5 | cyu5 | would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / taiwan pr. [ning2] | ||
hak1, ho2 | hak1, ho2 | can / may / able to / to approve / to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly / very |
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How to use 寧可 in a Sentence
Better have no war for a thousand days than slacken your vigilance for one day.
Better to slip with the foot than with the tongue.
You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
- 我 wǒ
- 寧 níng
- 可 kě
- 凝 níng
- 視 shì
- 繁 fán
- 星 xīng
- 滿 mǎn
- 天 tiān
- 的 de
- 晴 qíng
- 朗 lǎng
- 夜 yè
- 空 kōng
- 也 yě
- 不 bù
- 願 yuàn
- 盯 dīng
- 着 zhe
- 電 diàn
- 視 shì
- 機 jī
- 。 。
I would rather stare at a clear, star-filled sky than a TV set.
- 他 tā
- 是 shì
- 如 rú
- 此 cǐ
- 虛 xū
- 榮 róng
- 狂 kuáng
- 妄 wàng
- , ,
- 寧 níng
- 可 kě
- 和 hé
- 人 rén
- 翻 fān
- 臉 liǎn
- , ,
- 有 yǒu
- 笑 xiào
- 話 huà
- 卻 què
- 不 bù
- 能 néng
- 不 bù
- 說 shuō
- . .
He was so vain and reckless that he would break a friendship, rather than not break a jest.
- 船 chuán
- 長 zhǎng
- 到 dào
- 什 shén
- 麼 me
- 地 dì
- 方 fāng
- 都 dū
- 受 shòu
- 人 rén
- 們 men
- 的 de
- 揶 yé
- 揄 yú
- , ,
- 他 tā
- 自 zì
- 己 jǐ
- 真 zhēn
- 是 shì
- 寧 níng
- 可 kě
- 弔 diào
- 死 sǐ
- . .
The captain was laughed at in all companies, and was ready to hang himself.
- 和 hé
- 所 suǒ
- 有 yǒu
- 十 shí
- 幾 jǐ
- 歲 suì
- 的 de
- 孩 hái
- 子 zǐ
- 一 yī
- 樣 yàng
- , ,
- 有 yǒu
- 一 yī
- 樣 yàng
- 東 dōng
- 西 xī
- 她 tā
- 寧 níng
- 可 kě
- 沒 méi
- 有 yǒu
- — —
- — —
- 青 qīng
- 春 chūn
- 痘 dòu
- 。 。
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