拼命
pīn mìng
Pinyin

Definition

拼命
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pīn mìng
  1. to do one's utmost
  2. with all one's might
  3. at all costs
  4. (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

命
mìng
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 fate
  3. 3 order or command
  4. 4 to assign a name, title etc
命运
mìng yùn
  1. 1 fate
  2. 2 destiny
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
拼图
pīn tú
  1. 1 jigsaw puzzle
本命年
běn mìng nián
  1. 1 year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]
生命
shēng mìng
  1. 1 life (as the characteristic of living beings)
  2. 2 living being
  3. 3 creature
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 条 tiáo

Idioms (20)

一命呜呼
yī mìng wū hū
  1. 1 to die (idiom)
  2. 2 to breathe one's last
  3. 3 to give up the ghost
亡命之徒
wáng mìng zhī tú
  1. 1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal
  2. 2 fugitive
人命关天
rén mìng guān tiān
  1. 1 human life is beyond value (idiom)
命中注定
mìng zhōng zhù dìng
  1. 1 decreed by fate (idiom)
  2. 2 destined
  3. 3 fated
命在旦夕
mìng zài dàn xī
  1. 1 to be at death's door (idiom)

Sample Sentences

黑板上老师的粉笔还在拼命叽叽喳喳写个不停
hēibǎn shàng lǎoshī de fěnbǐ hái zài pīnmìng jījīzhāzhā xiě ge bùtíng
On the blackboard, teacher's chalk was still desperately writing a non-stop chatter.
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番泻叶不太好吧！前段时间有个新闻，就是说一个女中学生喝番泻叶导致内分泌紊乱，总是暴饮暴食，然后拼命喝番泻叶,最后得了强迫症。
fānxièyè bù tài hǎo ba ！qiánduànshíjiān yǒu ge xīnwén ，jiùshìshuō yī ge nǚ zhōngxuéshēng hē fānxièyè dǎozhì nèifēnmì wěnluàn ，zǒngshì bàoyǐnbàoshí ，ránhòu pīnmìng hē fānxièyè ,zuìhòu dé le qiǎngpò zhèng 。
Senna leaf isn't the greatest, I don't think. There was something in the news recently-- they said a middle-school student took so much senna leaf that her endocrine system got all messed up. She was always eating and drinking way too much, and then taking a ton of senna leaf. In the end, she got obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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那时候那么多人涌到上海，要生存下去，肯定要拼命。如果机遇好，说不定还能成大事呢。
nàshíhou nàme duō rén yǒng dào Shànghǎi ，yào shēngcún xiàqu ，kěndìng yào pīnmìng 。rúguǒ jīyù hǎo ，shuōbudìng hái néng chéng dàshì ne 。
At that time, so many people flooded into Shanghai. If you wanted to survive, you definitely needed to go all out. If you had good luck, it might turn into something big!
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可不是嘛，高考重视文化课业成绩，学校就拼命研究考题，拼命让学生做题，我们高考前的模拟考卷就有几千套，体育课，音乐课统统改成模拟考试了。
kěbushì ma ，gāokǎo zhòngshì wénhuà kèyè chéngjì ，xuéxiào jiù pīnmìng yánjiū kǎotí ，pīnmìng ràng xuésheng zuò tí ，wǒmen gāokǎo qián de mónǐ kǎojuǎn jiù yǒu jǐ qiān tào ，tǐyùkè ，yīnyuèkè tǒngtǒng gǎichéng mónǐ kǎoshì le 。
That's so true, the college entrance exams put a lot of emphasis on the grade in the liberal arts, while schools are eager to research exam questions. So they make students go over lots of past questions. Before our college entrance exams we have over a thousand mock exams, so physical education and music class all made way for mock examinations.
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不过话说回来，“书到用时方恨少”，如今在报社工作，我还是很感谢当年拼命阅读背诵打下的扎实基本功的。教育制度的改变并非一朝一夕，不过和其他制度一样，总会与时俱进的。
bùguò huàshuōhuílai ，“shū dào yòng shí fāng hèn shǎo ”，rújīn zài bàoshè gōngzuò ，wǒ háishì hěn gǎnxiè dāngnián pīnmìng yuèdú bèisòng dǎxià de zhāshi jīběngōng de 。jiāoyùzhìdù de gǎibiàn bìngfēi yīcháoyīxī ，bùguò hé qítā zhìdù yīyàng ，zǒng huì yǔshíjūjìn de 。
That said, it's only when you make use of your knowledge that you wish you'd learned more. Now I'm working for a newspaper, I'm really grateful for all that reading and learning off by heart I did back in the day to give myself a good basic knowledge. Changing the education system doesn't happen overnight, but rather, like other systems, it progresses over time.
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啊！像这样一边喝着咖啡一边看着刚刚拼命做好的报表一张张印出来，莫名地有种幸福的感觉。
ā ！xiàng zhèyàng yībiān hē zhe kāfēi yībiān kànzhe gānggāng pīnmìng zuò hǎo de bàobiǎo yīzhāng yìn chūlái ，mòmíng de yǒu zhǒng xìngfú de gǎnjué 。
Mmm...Sipping coffee whilst watching the report I toiled over print out sheet by sheet like this...there's an indescribable sense of happiness.
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就像你现在，拼命做了一大堆报表以后，能好好喝杯咖啡，放松等着报表印出来的这一刻。
jiù xiàng nǐ xiànzài ，pīnmìng zuò le yīdàduī bàobiǎo y��hòu ，néng hǎohāo hē bēi kāfēi ，fàngsōng děng zhe bàobiǎo yìn chūlái de zhè yī kè 。
Like you in this moment right now, after slaving over that massive heap of reports, you get to properly drink some coffee and relax while your report prints out.
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这倒是。不过越来越多的中国人被邀请到国外去工作，也证明了中国人的能力越来越受到重视。可是在国外打工毕竟不容易，你也别太拼命，要多注意身体，有空可要多回来看我们呀。
zhè dàoshì 。bùguò yuèláiyuèduō de zhōngguórén bèi yāoqǐng dào guówài qù gōngzuò ，yě zhèngmíng le zhōngguórén de nénglì yuèláiyuè shòudào zhòngshǐ 。kěshì zài guówài dǎgōng bìjìng bù róngyì ，nǐ yě bié tài pīnmìng ，yào duō zhùyì shēntǐ ，yǒukòng kě yào duō huílai kàn wǒmen yā 。
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