本意
běn yì
Pinyin

Definition

本意
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běn yì
  1. original idea
  2. real intention
  3. etymon

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

任意
rèn yì
  1. 1 any
  2. 2 arbitrary
  3. 3 at will
  4. 4 at random
创意
chuàng yì
  1. 1 creative
  2. 2 creativity
基本
jī běn
  1. 1 basic
  2. 2 fundamental
  3. 3 main
  4. 4 elementary
好意思
hǎo yì si
  1. 1 to have the nerve
  2. 2 what a cheek!
  3. 3 to feel no shame
  4. 4 to overcome the shame
  5. 5 (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
如意
rú yì
  1. 1 as one wants
  2. 2 according to one's wishes
  3. 3 ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
一本万利
yī běn wàn lì
  1. 1 small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
三心二意
sān xīn èr yì
  1. 1 in two minds about sth (idiom)
  2. 2 half-hearted
  3. 3 shilly-shallying
出乎意外
chū hū yì wài
  1. 1 beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected

Sample Sentences

可能吧。我很喜欢轻松诙谐的气氛，所以有时会想一些笑话来逗逗她，可是她常常不懂得欣赏我的幽默，反而和我生气。要知道我本意并不是要取笑她。真是弄巧成拙啊。
kěnéng ba 。wǒ hěn xǐhuan qīngsōng huīxié de qìfēn ，suǒyǐ yǒushí huì xiǎng yīxiē xiàohuà lái dòu dou tā ，kěshì tā chángcháng bù dǒngde xīnshǎng wǒ de yōumò ，fǎnér hé wǒ shēngqì 。yào zhīdào wǒ běnyì bìngbùshì yào qǔxiào tā 。zhēnshì nòngqiǎochéngzhuō a 。
Yeah, maybe. I really like a relaxed, easy atmosphere, so sometimes I think of a joke or two to get her to laugh. But she often doesn't understand my humor. In fact, she gets angry at me! She should understand that I wasn't trying to make fun of her. I just really hit a nerve.
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如果说把易经和占卜算命混为一谈的话，其实是歪曲了伏羲他老人家的本意啊。
rúguǒ shuō bǎ Yìjīng hé zhānbǔ suànmìng hùnwéiyītán dehuà ，qíshí shì wāiqū le Fúxī tā lǎorénjiā de běnyì a 。
To confuse the I Ching with divination and fortune telling, is actually a distortion of the founder, Fuxi's original meaning.
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