打拼
dǎ pīn
Pinyin

Definition

打拼
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dǎ pīn
  1. to work hard
  2. to try to make a living

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

打
dá
  1. 1 dozen (loanword)
打开
dǎ kāi
  1. 1 to open
  2. 2 to show (a ticket)
  3. 3 to turn on
  4. 4 to switch on
一网打尽
yī wǎng dǎ jìn
  1. 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
  3. 3 to capture them all in one go
打下
dǎ xià
  1. 1 to lay (a foundation)
  2. 2 to conquer (a city etc)
  3. 3 to shoot down (a bird etc)
打交道
dǎ jiāo dào
  1. 1 to come into contact with
  2. 2 to have dealings

Idioms (20)

一炮打响
yī pào dǎ xiǎng
  1. 1 to win instant success (idiom)
  2. 2 to start off successfully
一网打尽
yī wǎng dǎ jìn
  1. 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
  3. 3 to capture them all in one go
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
不打不成器
bù dǎ bù chéng qì
  1. 1 spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
不打不成才
bù dǎ bù chéng cái
  1. 1 spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哎，有钱的、没钱的、比上不足，比下有余的，就这么同住在一个城市里。 为生活打拼，为名利打拼。
ai ，yǒuqián de 、méi qiánde 、bǐshàngbùzú de ，jiù zhème tóng zhù zài yī ge chéngshì lǐ 。 wèi shēnghuó dǎpīn ，wéi míng lì dǎpīn 。
Oh, rich people, poor people, better than some and worse than the rest: all lived together in this city. They went all out to survive, and to make a name for themselves.
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好，你要用“苦肉计”。告诉她你是怎么每天苦苦打拼，下班站在车上都能睡着。可是只要能让她过好日子，你再苦再累都无所谓。总之重点就是要让她感动。
hǎo ，nǐ yào yòng “kǔròu jì ”。gàosu tā nǐ shì zěnme měitiān kǔ kǔ dǎpīn ，xiàbān zhàn zài chēshang dōu néng shuìzháo 。kěshì zhǐyào néng ràng tā guò hǎorìzi ，nǐ zài kǔ zài lèi dōu wúsuǒwèi 。zǒngzhī zhòngdiǎn jiùshì yào ràng tā gǎndòng 。
OK. To win her trust, you should show that you're sacrificing yourself. Tell her about how you bust your hump day after day. In the train on the way home you're tired enough to sleep. But as long as she can live well, you don't care how hard you have to work or how tired you get. The most important thing is that you need to move her.
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她也真不容易，一个人在上海打拼。
tā yě zhēn bù róngyì ，yī ge rén zài Shànghǎi dǎpīn 。
She has it quite hard, working alone in Shanghai.
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那是中国人太谦虚了。我们觉得是自大，其实顶多就是自信。再说，有什么国家能几十年发展成中国这样？我们完全有资本自信。你看温州商人以前条件多差？全是靠自己赤手空拳打拼出来的。他们现在有钱了，爱买什么买什么。
nàshì Zhōngguórén tài qiānxū le 。wǒmen juéde shì zìdà ，qíshí dǐngduō jiùshì zìxìn 。zàishuō ，yǒu shénme guójiā néng jǐshínián fāzhǎn chéng Zhōngguó zhèyàng ？wǒmen wánquán yǒu zīběn zìxìn 。nǐ kàn Wēnzhōu shāngrén yǐqián tiáojiàn duō chà ？quán shì kào zìjǐ chìshǒukōngquán dǎpīn chūlai de 。tāmen xiànzài yǒuqián le ，ài mǎi shénme mǎi shénme 。
That's excessive Chinese modesty. We feel like it's overconfidence, when at most, it's self-confidence. And furthermore, what other countries could develop for decades the way China has? We have every right to be self-confident. Look how lousy Wenzhou business people had it in the past. They got rich entirely by pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. Now they're rich, and they can buy whatever they like.
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