异想天开 (異想天開)
yì xiǎng tiān kāi
Pinyin

Definition

异想天开 (異想天開)
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yì xiǎng tiān kāi
  1. to imagine the wildest thing
  2. to indulge in fantasy

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven
想
xiǎng
  1. 1 to think
  2. 2 to believe
  3. 3 to suppose
  4. 4 to wish
  5. 5 to want
  6. 6 to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
明天
míng tiān
  1. 1 tomorrow
上天
shàng tiān
  1. 1 Heaven
  2. 2 Providence
  3. 3 God
  4. 4 the day before
  5. 5 the sky above
  6. 6 to fly to the sky
  7. 7 to take off and fly into space
  8. 8 to die
  9. 9 to pass away

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

算了吧，你也不照照镜子。就你这个样子，还是少在这儿异想天开了。不过话说回来，你看这照片，这个女孩儿长得也不怎么样啊。哪有刘嘉玲那样倾国倾城？
suàn le ba ，nǐ yě bù zhàozhao jìngzi 。jiù nǐ zhège yàngzi ，háishì shǎo zài zhèr yìxiǎngtiānkāi le 。bùguò huà shuōhuílai ，nǐ kàn zhè zhàopiàn ，zhège nǚháir zhǎng de yě bù zěnmeyàng a 。nǎyǒu Liú Jiālíng nàyàng qīngguóqīngchéng ？
But to get back to the point, look at this picture. This girl isn't so hot, either. She doesn't measure up to a phenomenal beauty like Liu Jialing.
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