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粵語辭叢

半天

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Original phonetic: /puːn³³ tʰiːn⁵⁵/

01

half a day

Examples

一般需要半天左右時間

in general, one needs about half a day’s time

02

a long time; quite a while; a while; forever

Examples

她扭捏了好半天才說出來話。

She acted shy for a quite while before she spoke.

寶玉瞅了半天,方說道「你放心」三個字。

Baoyu stared at her for a while, then said three words: "don't you worry."

搞了半天都未能解決,有沒有維基人能幫幫忙?

I've been working on this for quite a while, but still am unable to solve the problem. Are there any Wikipedians who can help me out?