欺
qī
Pinyin
Definition
欺
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- to take unfair advantage of
- to deceive
- to cheat
Character Decomposition
Idioms (8)
仗势欺人
- 1 to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom)
- 2 to kick people around
恃强欺弱
- 1 to use one's strength to mistreat people (idiom)
- 2 to bully
朋友妻不可欺
- 1 you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom)
欺世盗名
- 1 to fool the world and usurp a good name (idiom)
欺人太甚
- 1 to bully intolerably (idiom)
Sample Sentences
没错,理想化的说法是,如果真爱你就是二十四小时都有空,东南西北中都顺路。如果不秒回,至少得在一天之中给个回复吧,一通消息出去十天半个月才回复,那就别自欺欺人了,飞鸽传书都比这速度快。
That's right, in an ideal world, if he really loves you he'd have time for you twenty-four seven, and everything would always go your way. If he doesn't reply within seconds, he should at least reply that day. If you send a message and he doesn't reply for 10 days or a fortnight, then you shouldn't keep fooling yourself, you'd be quicker with a carrier pigeon.
嗨,这种现象就叫做FOMO,fear of missing out,错失恐惧症,所以就算有了时间的积累,没有效率也是白搭。确定了目标就全力以赴,别自欺欺人地所谓尽力而为。
Ha, that phenomenon is called FOMO - fear of missing out, so even if you have put in the hours, it doesn't mean anything if you're not being effective. Once you've fixed your goal, you have to put all your energy towards it and not fool yourself by doing as much as you feel can.
当然我可不是个任人欺负的孬种,只是不想跟失去理智的人一般见识。
Of course I'm not a coward who allows himself to be pushed around, it's just I don't want to stoop to the level of someone irrational.
若干年后齐宣王过世,他的儿子齐愍王继承了王位。这位齐愍王和他爹一样也喜欢听人吹奏竽,不同的是,他喜欢听独奏。有天,他颁布了道命令,要求隔天让那三百位乐师逐一吹竽给他听。乐师们听闻命令都相当开心,大家都想要在君王面前大展身手,只有那位滥竽充数的南郭先生觉得非常心虚,十分焦虑。心想:”这可是欺君之罪,要杀头的啊!我还不得赶紧溜之大吉?”于是连忙收拾行李,有多远逃多远了。
Some years later, the King passed away and his son, the King Min, inherited the throne. The King was similar to his dad in that he also loved listening to the yu. The difference was that he preferred solo performances. One day, he enacted an order, asking the 300 musicians to play the yu for him one by one. The musicians were quite happy to hear this order since they all wanted to show their talent in front of the King. However, Nan Guo, who has been pretending to play the yu, felt very guilty and anxious about this order. He thought “This is a crime of deceiving the King, people are decapitated over this! I must escape right this moment!” So he urgently packed his luggage and fled as far as he could.
在美国曝出知名高校招生舞弊案后,英国传出入学材料作假情况。英国《泰晤士报》17日报道,去年有4500多人涉嫌申请入学时抄袭别人的个人陈述。欧美国家高校通常要求申请人撰写个人陈述,阐述自己取得的成绩、申请动机等内容。英国高等院校招生委员会用一款名为copycatch的防学术欺诈软件查到,去年有4559人的个人陈述文件内容可疑。
Following the heels of well-known colleges and universities in the United States were exposed of fraudulent admissions, UK reported similar school admissions fraud. The Times reported on the 17th that more than 4,500 people were suspected of copying admissions essays at the time of enrollment. Colleges and universities in Europe and the United States usually require applicants to write college admissions essays, explaining their achievements, motivations, and so on. The UK College Admissions Committee used an anti-academic fraud software called copycatch. Last year, 4,559 people's personal statements were suspicious.
弄错?我看你们是存心欺骗,当我们是白痴吗?告诉你,你忙不过来情有可原,随便说话骗人就太过分了,你今天休想赚到我一毛钱!
A mistake? I think you're on the con, taking us for fools! Being busy is excusable, but lying to people is just too much. You can forget about earning even a cent from me today!
呵,我承认这是有点自欺欺人,但我不想浪费时间执着在已经发生的事情上,所以我改变自己的想法来接受生活中的不如意。
Ha, I'll admit I'm deluding myself, but I don't want to waste time on things that are in the past, so I changed the way I think about things to allow me to accept life's frustrations.
反正,西施和貂蝉多少都和欺骗联系在一起。虽然有外在美,但内在美的话要打点折扣。
However, Xi Shi and Diao Chan were linked by the fact that they were both duplicitous. Although they were outwardly beautiful, they definitely need to have some points deducted due to their inner character.
就是感觉你受到了很大的欺骗。
It's that you feel like you've been seriously deceived or cheated.
比较好欺负。
Easy to bully.