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rán ㄖㄢˊ (1): 「燃」的本字：燃燒。 Burn.
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (2): 指示代詞：如此，這樣，那樣。 Demonstrative pronoun: like this, like that.
| 《·》: | 假者，今不然也。 | | "Suppose" is not so now. | | 《·》: | 然則管仲知禮乎？ | | "Then, did Guan Zhong know the rules of propriety?" | | 《·》: | 河東凶亦然。 | | When the year is bad on the east of the river, I act on the same plan. | | 《·》: | 雖然，猶有未樹也。 | | But still he had not planted himself firmly (in the right position). | | 《·》: | 曰：「然則蓋行乎？」 | | 'Then,' continued the other, 'Why not go away?' | | 《·》: | 雖然，臣願悉言所聞，唯大王裁其罪。 |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (3.1): 表示肯定，相當於「對」、「是」。 Expresses affirmation: true, indeed so.
| 《·》: | 子曰：「雍之言然。」 | | The Master said, "Yong's words are right." | | 《·》: | 王曰：「然。」 | | The king said, 'You are right.' | | 《·》: | 曰：「然。」 | | 'I was,' he replied. | | 《·》: | 舜曰：「然。」 | | But Shun said, 'Let it be so,' | | 《·》: | 子曰：「然。」 | | The Master said, 'They do.' | | 《·》: | 婦人曰：「然。」 |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (3.2): 認爲對的。 Believe correct, affirm.
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (4): 副詞：竟，便。 Adverb: actually, thus.
| 《·》: | 封人曰：「始也我以女為聖人邪，今然君子也。」 | | The warden rejoined, 'At first I considered you to be a sage; now I see in you only a Superior man.' |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (5): 連詞：表示轉折，相當於「可是」、「但」、「卻」。 Connective: but, however, yet.
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (6): 助詞：用於句尾，表示比擬。相當於「...一般」、「...似的」。 Particle used at the end of a sentence to express comparison. Like, as if.
| 《·》: | 人之視己，如見其肺肝然，則何益矣！ | | The other beholds him, as if he saw his heart and reins;-of what use is his disguise? |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (7): 助詞：用於形容詞、副詞之後，表示狀態。 Particle used after an adjective or adverb to express state.
| 《·》: | 天油然作雲，沛然下雨，則苗浡然興之矣。 | | Then the clouds collect densely in the heavens, they send down torrents of rain, and the grain erects itself, as if by a shoot. | | 《·》: | 而宋榮子猶然笑之。 | | And yet Rongzi of Song would have smiled and laughed at them. |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (8): 助詞：用於句尾，表示肯定語氣，相當於「焉」。 Particle used at the end of a sentence to express affirmative mode.
| 《·》: | 若由也，不得其死然。 | | He said, "You there - he will not die a natural death." | | 《》: | 若由也，不得其死然。 | | 《·》: | 孔子曰：『糞土之牆，不可杇也』，『若由不得其死、然。』 |
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