冥思苦索
Chinese
to think hard; to cudgel one's brains; delusion to think hard; to cudgel one's brains; delusion; fantasy | 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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trad. (冥思苦索) | 冥思 | 苦 | 索 | |
simp. #(冥思苦索) | 冥思 | 苦 | 索 |
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.]
- 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”. [Pinyin]
- 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.
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.]
Synonyms
- 冥思苦想 (míngsīkǔxiǎng)