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Learn about the idiom 「聽天由命」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
You: obey, follow. Allow things to develop and change naturally without making any subjective efforts. It also means that when an opportunity arises, you should do whatever you want.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tīng tiān yóu mìng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
teng1 tin1 yau4 meng6
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