寄予 - to place (hope, importance etc) on, to express, to show, to give - jì yǔ | Definition | ChinesePod.com

寄予

jì yǔ

Pinyin

Definition

寄予

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jì yǔ

to place (hope, importance etc) on
to express
to show
to give

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

jì

1 to send
2 to mail
3 to entrust
4 to depend on
5 to attach oneself to
6 to live (in a house)
7 to lodge
8 foster (son etc)

shòu yǔ

1 to award
2 to confer

jǐ yǔ

1 to accord
2 to give
3 to show (respect)

cì yǔ

1 to grant
2 to bestow

yú

1 (archaic) I
2 me

Idioms (5)

予以照顾

yǔ yǐ zhào gù

1 to ask sb to carefully consider a request (idiom)

千里寄鹅毛

qiān lǐ jì é máo

1 goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
2 also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛

宰予昼寝

Zǎi Yǔ zhòu qǐn

1 Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures

寄人篱下

jì rén lí xià

1 to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity

欲取姑予

yù qǔ gū yǔ

1 variant: 欲取姑与 yù qǔ gū yǔ
2 to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)

Sample Sentences

那，拿我朋友小周做例子吧，小周你也熟悉吧，当初名校毕业，家人都对他寄予厚望，原来他在银行业也做得风生水起，游刃有余的。

nà ，ná wǒ péngyou Xiǎo Zhōu zuò lìzi ba ，Xiǎo Zhōu nǐ yě shúxī ba ，dāngchū míngxiào bìyè ，jiārén dōu duì tā jìyǔ hòuwàng ，yuánlái tā zài yínhángyè yě zuò de fēngshēngshuǐqǐ ，yóurènyǒuyú de 。

Then, take my friend Xiaozhou as an example. You know Xiaozhou, right? He graduated from a famous school, and his family had high hopes for him. He started out really making a mark when he was working at a bank, handling his job with ease.

I've collected a lot of Chaplin movies. Chaplin was always deeply sympathetic toward the little guy and the out of work, and made fun of capitalism and the powers that be. He supported progressive democratic movements, and so from the very beginning, Chaplin and his movies have been very popular in China.