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Learn about the idiom 「楚囚相對」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It describes the situation when people encounter national disasters or other misfortunes and are helpless and can only feel sad.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chǔ qiú xiàng duì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cho2 chau4 seung1 deui3
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