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rán ㄖㄢˊ (1): “燃”的本字：燃烧。 Burn.
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (2): 指示代词：如此，这样，那样。 Demonstrative pronoun: like this, like that.
| 《·》: | 假者，今不然也。 | | "Suppose" is not so now. | | 《·》: | 然则管仲知礼乎？ | | "Then, did Guan Zhong know the rules of propriety?" | | 《·》: | 河东凶亦然。 | | When the year is bad on the east of the river, I act on the same plan. | | 《·》: | 虽然，犹有未树也。 | | But still he had not planted himself firmly (in the right position). | | 《·》: | 曰：“然则盖行乎？” | | 'Then,' continued the other, 'Why not go away?' | | 《·》: | 虽然，臣愿悉言所闻，唯大王裁其罪。 |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (3.1): 表示肯定，相当于“对”、“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.' | | 《·》: | 妇人曰：“然。” |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (3.2): 认爲对的。 Believe correct, affirm.
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (4): 副词：竟，便。 Adverb: actually, thus.
| 《·》: | 封人曰：“始也我以女为圣人邪，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): 连词：表示转折，相当于“可是”、“但”、“却”。 Connective: but, however, yet.
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (6): 助词：用于句尾，表示比拟。相当于“...一般”、“...似的”。 Particle used at the end of a sentence to express comparison. Like, as if.
| 《·》: | 人之视己，如见其肺肝然，则何益矣！ | | 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): 助词：用于形容词、副词之后，表示状态。 Particle used after an adjective or adverb to express state.
| 《·》: | 天油然作云，沛然下雨，则苗浡然兴之矣。 | | Then the clouds collect densely in the heavens, they send down torrents of rain, and the grain erects itself, as if by a shoot. | | 《·》: | 而宋荣子犹然笑之。 | | And yet Rongzi of Song would have smiled and laughed at them. |
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rán ㄖㄢˊ (8): 助词：用于句尾，表示肯定语气，相当于“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：‘粪土之墙，不可圬也’，‘若由不得其死、然。’ |
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