无言以对 (無言以對)
wú yán yǐ duì
Pinyin
Definition
无言以对 (無言以對)
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- to be left speechless
- unable to respond
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 old variant of 以[yǐ]
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 after
- 2 later
- 3 afterwards
- 4 following
- 5 later on
- 6 in the future
- 1 to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
- 1 can
- 2 may
- 3 possible
- 4 able to
- 5 not bad
- 6 pretty good
Idioms (20)
一则以喜，一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
一言一动
- 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
- 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
- 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
- 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
Sample Sentences
对不合理的请求，我们无言以对。
To those unreasonable requests, we are not willing to say anything.
无言以对
have nothing to say