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Definition
Lee Wai Lun, a retired Hong Kong football player.
colloquialpeoplesports
How it's used
Proper nouns for specific individuals are used directly in conversation without special markers. When discussing retired athletes, it is common to add 以前 to frame the context of their past career. The name is treated as a standard noun phrase in any sentence structure.
Examples
Lee Wai Lun was very good at playing football back in the day.
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