There is this Min song called 三声无奈, lit. "three sounds helpless". This seems to be an idiomatic expression. I am not totally sure what it means though. It seems to mean "completely helpless". This is also suggested by the fact 三声 is said here to 旧指军中用以传令的金鼓、笳、铎之声, i.e. "have originally indicated the (three) sounds of the golden drum, the whistle, and the bell used to transmit orders in the military", so after three sounds the transmission was complete, meaning that 三声 would mean "complete", or "completely". But this is pretty much guesswork. Does anyone know if the guesswork is correct or if it means something else?
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1I think it is just used to rhyme with the first two "一时贪着阿君仔媠...二更过了月斜西...三声无奈哭悲哀...", which i think just means crying 3 times "无奈，无奈，无奈..." to show sorrowness– MindlessCommented Aug 30, 2017 at 2:08
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我想你因該看得懂我寫的中文
三聲無奈的意思是表示「喊了3次無奈」表示非常的無可奈何(3次並不是準確的數字只是代表很多,一個複數的概念)
參考資料： http://yifertw.blogspot.tw/2010/10/blog-post_01.html
讀中文的詩歌呢，重點不是字義（字面上的意思）：重點在於意境（作者想傳達的感情）。
I think you should read and understand the Chinese I've written.
三聲無奈 means:
I shouted "helpless" three times
and shows extreme helplessness (three times is also not a precise number, it's just to mean a lot, a plural concept).
I reference you to this resource: http://yifertw.blogspot.tw/2010/10/blog-post_01.html
Reading Chinese songs, the focal point is not the meaning of the characters. The focal point is on the artistic conception (the feeling the author wanted to convey).
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So basically I understood it correctly: it roughly translates to "completely helpless" (or perhaps "extremely helpless").– MickGCommented Aug 30, 2017 at 9:29
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it is used to express emotion, no particular meaning, it is just used to portray sorrowness or sadness, it could be 两声无奈，四声无奈, doesn't matter, 三声无奈 is used to thyme with 一and二 and show sorrowness.– MindlessCommented Aug 31, 2017 at 1:38
在汉语成语和古汉语文学性文章中的数字大多不代表实际数量，一般是为了语句的韵律，仅是一个大约的数字用来形容多次或者很多次。
比如“飞流直下三千尺，疑是银河落九天”，这里的三千和九均不是真实数值
The numbers in Chinese set phrases (chengyu) and old Chinese literary texts mostly do not express an actual quantity, they are generally for the rhythm of the sentence, and are only approximate numbers used to describe "many times" or "very many times".
For example "Flying and flowing down vertically for 3000 chi, I suspect it's the Milky Way falling from the 9th Heaven", the "3000" and "9" here are both not real numbers.
