tẩn mẩn
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[edit]tẩn mẩn
- with attention to insignificant details
- 1978, Chu Lai, chapter 4, in Nắng đồng bằng, NXB Quân đội Nhân dân:
- Rồi với nết mặt kỳ quặc, nửa u mê, nửa thanh thản, anh tẩn mẩn kỳ cọ kỹ từng ngón tay, ngón chân.
- Then, with a strange expression – half dull half untroubled – he carefully and meticulously scrubbed each finger and each toe.