How to pronounce 一波三折 in Cantonese (3 out of 4):

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今天這條影片可以說是一波三折

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Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

今天 gam1 tin1

today

這 ze5

this

these

(commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)

the

here

now

then

條 tiu5

strip

item

article

clause (of law or treaty)

classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers, people (in slangs) etc)

order

orderliness

ten dollars

影片 jing2 pin2

video clip

可以 ho2 ji5

(adjective) so so

說 syut3

to speak

to say

to explain

to scold

to tell off

a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)

to criticize

to try to influence someone to do something

to mean

是 si6

一波三折 jat1 bo1 saam1 zit3

full of twists and turns

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