phóng nhanh vượt ẩu
Speeding and reckless weaving — driving without a shred of self-restraint.
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phóng tài hoá, thu nhân tâm
Scatter wealth, harvest hearts — generosity converted at the best exchange rate there is.
phông bạt
All facade — flexing a lifestyle or generosity that’s pure backdrop, no substance.
phù ... diệt
the movement/campaign in question is all about helping ... defeat ...
phùng mang trợn mắt
Gills puffed and eyes bulging — straining far past one's strength.
phùng mồm trợn mắt
Mouth agape and eyes popping — astonishment written across the whole face.
phú diệc gioa, quí diệc thê
Wealth trades its friends, rank trades its wife — promotion as serial abandonment.
phú quí bất qui cố hương, như ý cẩm dạ hành
Rich and never returning home is brocade worn in the dark — success needs its native audience.
phú quí các hữu định phận
Wealth and rank are pre-assigned — the portion was written before the striving.
phú quí đa nhơn hội, bần cùng thân thích ly
Wealth gathers crowds; poverty scatters kin — the census of your fortunes taken at your door.
phú quới sanh lễ nghĩa
Wealth begets manners — money is the finishing school the coarse suddenly graduate from.
phú đữ quới thị nhơn chi sở dục, bần dữ tiện thị nhơn chi sở ố,
All crave wealth and rank, all dread want and lowliness — craving rarely granted, dread rarely spared.
phúc bất trùng lai, họa vô đơn chí
Blessings do not come in pair, disasters do not come singly; opportunity seldom knocks twice, misfortunes never come singly
phúc thủy nan thâu
Spilled water can't be gathered — what's poured out is past retrieving.
phúc đức tại mẫu
Blessing and virtue come from the mother — the household's moral estate is her bequest.
Phương Cao kén ngựa
Phương Cao choosing horses — judging the essence and ignoring surface details, like the legendary horse-picker.
phước bất cẩu cầu, họa vô cẫu miễn
Blessing won't be begged, calamity won't be dodged — both answer to conduct, not petitions.
phước chí tâm linh, họa lai thần ám,
Luck arriving sharpens the mind; disaster arriving darkens it — fortune tunes the very wits that must manage it.
phước chủ may thầy
The patient's luck makes the doctor's name — recovery credits the prescription either way.
phước đức khán tử tôn
Read the ancestors' merit in the grandchildren — the estate of virtue, audited two generations on.
phượng hoàng ở chốn cheo leo, sa cơ lỡ vận phải theo đàn gà. Bao giờ gió thuận mưa hòa, thay lông đổi cánh lại ra phượng hoàng
The phoenix on its high crag, fallen on hard times, must run with the chickens — but come fair wind and rain, it molts and is phoenix again — nobility in eclipse.
phải người phải ta
Right by them, right by us — the settlement both families can sign; fairness in both directions.
phản cầu chư thân
Turn and seek it in yourself — the archer who misses blames no target.
phản thần tặc tử
Rebel minister, bandit son — a traitor to lord or family.
phấn giồi mặt, ai lấy phấn mà giồi chơn
Powder is for faces — nobody rouges their feet; adornment goes where the world will look.
phấn son tô điểm sơn hà, làm cho rỡ mặt đàn bà nước Nam
Powder and rouge adorn the rivers and mountains — bringing glory to the women of the South — the verse of feminine patriotism.
phần thư khanh nho
Burning the books and burying the scholars — Qin's purge; contempt for learning and the learned.
phận gái theo chồng
A daughter's portion follows her husband — the old settlement of a woman's lot.
phật tại tâm
The Buddha dwells in the heart — worship is interior; goodness needs no altar.
phỉ chí cũng cam
Content if the will is served — resolved to see it through, whatever it costs, so the heart is satisfied.
phụ mẫu tồn bất khả viễn du,
While parents live, wander no farther than word can reach — the filial tether on every journey.
phụ trái tử hoàn
The father's debt, the son repays — inherit the estate, inherit its ledger.
phụ từ tử hiếu
A kind father, a devoted child — each half of the bond breeds the other.
phụ tử bất đồng tịch
Father and son share no mat — the old etiquette of rank between generations.
phục dược bách lỏa, bất như độc ngọa
A hundred pills are less than sleeping alone — the physician's bluntest prescription for长 life.
phục dược bất như giảm khẩu
Medicine is less than a smaller mouthful — the diet does what the pharmacy can't.
phục vụ quân thứ
Serving with the army abroad — earning back one's good name through hard service.
PT-TH
short for phát thanh truyền hình (“to emit sound and to transmit video content”)
qtqđ
Texting shortcut for “quá trời quá đất” — an awful lot; extremely (Southern-flavored exclamation).
qua cầu ngả nón trông cầu, cầu bao nhiêu nhịp, ngả sầu bấy nhiêu
Crossing the bridge I tip my hat and gaze — as many spans as the bridge has, that many sorrows tip with it.
qua cầu rút ván
To discard the people who helped you once you no longer need them; to destroy the way back after getting what you wanted.
qua ngày đoạn tháng
Getting through days and finishing months — merely subsisting, marking time.
qua sông thì phải lụy đò
To cross the river you must humor the ferryman — needing help means bowing to the helper.
qua sông đến bến
Cross the river, reach the wharf — every passage has its landing; endure to arrival.
qua điền bất nạp lý, lý hạ bất chỉnh quan
Tie no sandal in the melon field, straighten no hat beneath the plum — avoid even the posture of theft.
qua đình ngả nón trông đình, đình bao nhiêu ngói, thương mình bấy nhiêu
Passing the đình I tip my hat and gaze — as many tiles as the roof holds, that much I love you — devotion counted in roof-tiles.
qua đò khinh sóng
To scorn a danger once it is safely behind you — becoming dismissive or arrogant after hardship has passed.
quai xanh vành chảo
Kettle-handles and pan-rims — a shrew with a tongue like clattering cookware.
quan pháp vô thân
The law knows no kin — public rule admits no family discount.
quan quỉ quyệt, dân thì thế
Officials scheme, the people dodge — governance as a contest of tricks and evasions.
quan san cách trở
Passes and peaks between — long distance and hard separation.
quan tha nha bắt
The mandarin pardons, the clerks arrest — mercy above, extortion below.
quan tám cũng ừ, quan tư cũng gật
Eight strings? Yes. Four strings? Nod — assent calibrated to whoever is paying.
quan xa bản nha gần
The mandarin is far; the clerks are near — the extortion you meet is always local.
quan yêu bạn ghét
The official's favorite, the colleagues' target — patronage from above purchases envy alongside.
quang minh chính đại
high-principled; open and aboveboard; just and honorable; frank and righteous; without artifice
quanh đi quẩn lại
Round and round the same circle — coming back again and again to the same few things.
quay đầu là bờ
it is never too late to stop generating negative karma (tạo nghiệp) and start seeking enlightenment instead
quen hơi bén tiếng
Grown used to each other's air and voice — familiarity warming into attachment.
quen nhà mạ, lạ nhà chồng
At ease in mother's house, a guest in the husband's — familiarity is an address, not a virtue.