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<< review queue entry 68426 - submitted by 'samsara' >> 还有一个女人,作为一位歌手,她的年纪已到了收山的年龄。 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%94%B6%E5%B1%B1 ------------------------------- Editor: "福贵,我收山啦,往后再也不去赌啦。赌场无赢家,我是见好就收,免得日后也落到你这种地步。" "Fugui, I've given up.From now on, I'm not gonig to gamble. no one's winner at the gambling house. I'm quitting while I'm ahead so as to avoid ending up like you someday." 一走進店面後,滿滿的漫畫令范萬楠極為興奮,一經詢問,進貨時間只要一週。至此受原稿延宕問題所苦,打算收山的范萬楠又重新燃起希望。 Stepping inside and seeing the store brimming with comics got Fan excited, and he asked about their importing schedule, discovering it only took them a week to get new issues. After all of the trouble with Hongguang, Fan had been considering packing it all in, but this store reignited a flame of hope in him. 以前是鬼扯的 我真的要收山了 Then, I was jiving you. I mean it. I'm going to pack it in. 曾幾何時,隨著時代轉變,許多產業鐵路功成身退,林業鐵路一個個收山, But times changed, and one after another many industrial railways were taken out of service. 在新興娛樂競爭下,傳統戲團數量銳減,中華民俗藝術基金會執行秘書趙素瑩分析,「在削減戲金的壓力下,只好降低戲曲表演的品質,這樣卻又嚇走觀眾,造成惡性循環;不少劇團早已名存實亡,等著老演員凋去便收山。」 With competition from modern entertainment, the number of traditional drama troupes has dropped sharply. According to ROC Folk Arts Foundation Executive Secretary Chao Su-ying, "Pressure of reduced fees has meant a lower quality of performance, and this frightens away audiences, leading to a vicious circle; many troupes are just a hollow shell and will fold up once the old actors are gone." ABC sau1 saan1 收山 V.O. 〈lit. to harvest the mountain; fig.〉 to retire from one's work, trade, or profession; not to work at one's orig. profession anymore; to live in retirement; (for a triad boss) to retire from triad society; membership in a triad society and claiming to be a triad member are both illegal in HK.; in some quarters in HK. and mainland Ch. triad societies are regarded as patriotic orgs. ‖ 呢一行我做咗幾十年,就嚟收山㗎喇 I've already engaged in this business for a few decades, so I'm going to retire CC-Canto 收山 sau1 saan1 {shōu shān} (slang) retire; to quit from a field that one used to work in; to hang up one's axe; to wash one's hands of something (typically refers to those who wants to abandon the life of an outlaws or prostitutions); to shut down; to pack up (typically referring to a business) https://cantonese.org/search.php?q=%E6%94%B6%E5%B1%B1 |
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# 收山 收山 [shou1 shan1] /to stop doing (one's career, etc)/ + 收山 收山 [shou1 shan1] /(slang) (from Cantonese) to bow out after a long career/to pack it in/(of a gangster, prostitute etc) to get out of the game/(of a business) to cease to operate/ |