How to pronounce 任人 in Cantonese (5 out of 6):

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可想而知，當時嘅女性黑奴地位係幾咁卑微， 任人魚肉嘅感覺甚至比死更難受。
It's amazing how humble the status of black women was, and how hard it was to be a fisherman's slave, even more painful than death.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

可想而知 ho2 soeng2 ji4 zi1
as one can imagine
當時 dong1 si4
back then
嘅 koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
女性 neoi5 sing3
(noun) (of gender) Woman
黑 hak1
black
dark
sinister
secret
shady
illegal
to hide (sth) away
to vilify
(loanword) to hack (computing)
evil
gloomy
glum (facial expression)
unlucky
unfortunate
cursed
奴 nou4
slave
servant
a humble way to say 'I' by a servant or an official when addressing one's master
term of disparagement
地位 dei6 wai2
status
係 hai6
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
幾咁 gei2 gam2
so, very, very much; how
卑微 bei1 mei1
humble
任人 jam6 yan4
to let others
魚肉 jyu4 juk6
the flesh of fish
感覺 gam2 gok3
feeling
甚至 sam6 zi3
even
比 bei3
close
recent
until
till
to stand close together
to cling to
to collude with
死 si2
to die
impassable
uncrossable
inflexible
rigid
extremely
damned
dead
death
the dead
die for (cause)
condemned to die
solid, not hollow
irreconcilable
deadly
obsolete
to the death
stubbornly
desperately
resolutely
dogmatic
in a unconscious
to do something by rote
to do something passively, without doing anything
used to emphasis the negative meaning of a word or phrase
更 gang3
more
even more
further
still
still more
難受 naan4 sau6
uncomfortable
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