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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Adjective
ba chìm bảy nổi
- (literal) sunk down three times, floated up seven times
- (figurative, of people or their lives) adrift or unstable, full of struggling
- Hồ Xuân Hương, Bánh trôi nước
Thân em thời trắng phận em tròn,
Bảy nổi ba chìm mấy nước non.
Rắn nát mặc dầu tay kẻ nặn,
Nhưng em vẫn giữ tấm lòng son.- I was born pure and beautiful,
Yet my life's full of struggles.
My fate is in entirely in the hands of the elites, the powerful,
Yet I will never lose faith. - (literally, “My body's pasty, my fate well-rounded,
I've been adrift in all this water.
Whether I remain solid or become mushy, it's up to my maker,
Nevertheless, my heart will forever be blood-red.”)
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