「情人眼裏出西施」

Entry #1
Pronunciation: cing4 jan4 ngaan5 leoi5 ceot1 sai1 si1
Individual
Character Meaning:
情 affection; love; passion; feeling; condition; situation
人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person
眼 eye; hole; aperture; glance; glimpse
裏 inside
出 to go out; to come out; to issue; to publish; to produce; to grow; to appear; to offer; to give; to provide; to go beyond; to use; to bring out; to show
西 west; to spin
施 to put into effect; to execute; to carry out; to enforce; to bestow; to grant; to exert; to impose; to use; to apply
Variants: Variants: 情人眼裡出西施
Part of Speech: expression
Explanation:
beauty lies in the lover's eye; beauty is in the eye of the beholder; literally: in the lover's eye lies Hsi Shih (one of the "four great beauties" in ancient China)
(Cant.) 情cing4人jan4眼ngaan5裏leoi5出ceot1西sai1施si1,佢keoi5老lou5婆po4喺hai2佢keoi5心sam1目muk6中zung1永wing5遠jyun5都dou1係hai6大daai6美mei5人jan4,幾gei2十sap6年nin4都dou1冇mou5變bin3。
(Eng.) Beauty lies in the lover's eye. To him, his wife is always a big beauty. It has not changed for decades.
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