孤立无援 (孤立無援)
gū lì wú yuán
Pinyin
Definition
孤立无援 (孤立無援)
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- isolated and without help
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一意孤行
- 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
- 2 willful
- 3 one's own way
- 4 dogmatic
三十而立
- 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
势不两立
- 1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences
- 2 incompatible standpoints
又想当婊子又想立牌坊
- 1 lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation
- 3 to want to have one's cake and eat it too
围城打援
- 1 to besiege and strike the relief force (idiom); strategy of surrounding a unit to entice the enemy to reinforce, then striking the new troops