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bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful |
to search; to demand; to ask to search; to demand; to ask; to exact; large rope; isolated |
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冥思
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冥思
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Pronunciation
Idiom
冥思苦索
- to think long and hard; to rack one's brains; to cudgel one's brains
只有蠢人，才是他一個人，或者邀集一堆人，不作調查，而只是冥思苦索地「想辦法」，「打主意」。 [MSC, trad.]
只有蠢人，才是他一个人，或者邀集一堆人，不作调查，而只是冥思苦索地「想办法」，「打主意」。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 1930, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《反對本本主義》 (Oppose Book Worship), 《毛澤東選集》 (Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung), English translation based on
- Zhǐyǒu chǔnrén, cái shì tā yī gè rén, huòzhě yāojí yī duī rén, bù zuò diàochá, ér zhǐshì míngsīkǔsuǒ de “xiǎng bànfǎ”, “dǎ zhǔyì”.
- Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to "find solution" or "evolve an idea" without making any investigation.
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