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粵語辭叢

窮鄉僻壤

kung4 hoeng1 pik1 joeng6included in 2 dictionaries
粵典 (words.hk)Hong KongWord

貧窮、落後嘅地方 (remote and backward place; literally: poor rural area, remote earth)

名詞

Examples

好多人都覺得柬埔寨只係一個窮鄉僻壤。

hou2 do1 jan4 dou1 gok3 dak1 gaan2 pou4 zaai6 zi2 hai6 jat1 go3 kung4 hoeng1 pik1 joeng6.

People usually think that Cambodia is a remote and backward place.

維基辭典YuePhrase

Original phonetic: /kʰʊŋ²¹ hœːŋ⁵⁵ pʰɪk̚⁵ jœːŋ²²/

remote and backward places

Examples

開一萬個法政學校,能不能在這樣短時間內普及政治教育於窮鄉僻壤的男女老少,像現在農會所做的政治教育一樣呢?我想不能吧。

Even if ten thousand schools of law and political science had been opened, could they have brought as much political education to the people, men and women, young and old, all the way into the remotest corners of the countryside, as the peasant associations have done in so short a time? I don't think they could.