台灣俗語的智慧(22)

台灣俗語的智慧(22)

                                   

1)     歹竹出好筍 -(Pronounced as: pine tek choo hoh shun)

直譯：A bamboo of bad breed may breed bamboo shoots of better breed. ( 品種不良的竹子長出好的竹子)- 此乃自謙語

意譯：Good children may come of poor or indecent family. (不好的父親養出好的後代)

2)     尼姑做滿月-(Pronounced as:neen koh tso muah guei)

直譯：A nun celebrates her son’s one month old. (尼姑產子請吃彌月酒)

註：尼姑是出家人，除非偷情犯戒，否則無法生子，比喻幾乎很少或不可能發生之事。(註：嬰孩出生滿一個月，台灣叫滿月)

意譯：An incident or something rarely, never happens or is unlikely to happen.

3)     吃睏無分寸-( Pronounced as:jia kun boh hun chun)

   註：沒有分寸為不限制

直譯：It is uncontrollable to eat and sleep. (吃與睡不易節制的)

意譯：It is hard to control one’s eating amount or sleeping hours.

要控制飲食與睡眠是不易的

** Moderate eating and sleeping is important.適當的飲食與睡眠是重要的

   A person’s desire is uncontrollable. 慾望無限

4)     青瞴無看槍-( Pronounced as: chen mei boh kuain ching)

註：青瞴=瞎眼， 無目謂之盲，白話害目叫盲，孰對孰錯? 中文古字真妙!

直譯：Blind people are unable to see rifles pointed at them.瞎眼者看不見槍枝。

意譯：Ignorant people are unaware of imminent danger around. (意指行事魯莽)

5)     媠人無媠命 (紅顏薄命) –(Pronounced as:shui ran boh shui miah)

註：「媠」音同水(shui)，乃台灣古字，其義為美貌

意譯：A fair lady may not have a good fate which is parallel to her beauty.

6)     捧屎摸面-( Pronounced as:pon sai buah bin)

註：屎=dropping = shit排泄物；摸=塗抹=powder

直譯：putting shit on one’s face as make-up.

意譯：disgracing oneself with something humiliating (錯把羞恥的事充當光榮來向人煊耀)

                   

歐巴馬意圖掩蓋駐中東大使館被焚，大使被殺之事件

7)     早頓食飽，下晝頓食巧，暗頓食半飽。(Pronounced as:Chah-tn chiah pa , e-tao-tn chiah kha , am-tn chiah poan-pah)

略同：早餐吃得好，中餐吃得飽，晚餐吃得少

註：台語一頓=一餐；飽與巧押韻。在路邊攤吃『粗飽(taw pah-填飽肚子) 』，到五星級飯店吃山珍海味，叫吃巧(吃精巧細緻食物)。下晝(eeh tao)=下埔(eeh poh) =午後，台語中午叫中晝(dion tao) 。暗=暝晚，暗頓=晚餐

意譯：Having a full stomach (Eating enough) at breakfast, eating delicious lunch, and eating scanty food at dinner. (these are good for health.) 另有

『暗頓小食口，食到九十九』(Pronounced ass: am tn sho chiah kao, chiah gao gao tsap gao)- 晚餐食量少，活到99歲。

意譯：A small amount of food at dinner ensures a long life span. (晚餐少量壽命長)

8)     偷食，呣知拭喙(Pronounced as:tao-chiah, m- zain chhit-chhui.)

直譯：One knows how to steal something for food, but does not know how to wipe off food left on face. (懂得吃，不懂擦嘴)

意譯：One knows when and how to take advantage of others in secret, but does not know how to cover up his behavior.

9)     材料到毋是媳婦敖(賢) (Pronounced as: Chai-liau kau m si sim-puh gau)

註：敖=賢=很行=棒。材料=食材。到與賢押韻

直譯：All the material for cooking is well prepared. It is not because of a good cook- a daughter in law. 字面意思：是材料齊全而非媳婦(或自己)做得好。

   另譯：It is not because the daughter-in-law’s skillful but because she is equipped with all things needed.  

意譯：Things well prepared in advance are more important than a capable person. (無論從事某事情，事先的準備重於目前的表現)，本諺語為自謙語。

10) 雜唸大家出顢皮媳婦 (Pronounced as:Chap liam ta-ke chhut ban phoe sim-pu)

 

娑媳之間

註：雜念，指嘀咕不停，現代台灣年青人叫「碎碎念」=nagging. 大家= mother-in-law。顢：蠢鈍、不情願貎。通「頑慢」。﹝例﹞顢皮、顢頇。顢皮：中文在此有「延宕、不明事理、耍賴」之意。顢皮是漢古文，想不到台語保存的很好，還應用在台灣口語上(colloquial Taiwanese)!

意譯：A garrulous (nagging) mother-in-law makes a persistently disobedient and brazen-faced daughter-in-law. (makes= turns out to be之意)

Justin Lai (賴正雄) 編譯

10/03/2015