没法 (沒法)
méi fǎ
Pinyin

Definition

没法 (沒法)
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méi fǎ
  1. at a loss
  2. unable to do anything about it
  3. to have no choice

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

法
fǎ
  1. 1 variant: 法 fǎ
做法
zuò fǎ
  1. 1 way of handling sth
  2. 2 method for making
  3. 3 work method
  4. 4 recipe
  5. 5 practice
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
想法
xiǎng fǎ
  1. 1 way of thinking
  2. 2 opinion
  3. 3 notion
  4. 4 to think of a way (to do sth)
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè
方法
fāng fǎ
  1. 1 method
  2. 2 way
  3. 3 means
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
没法
méi fǎ
  1. 1 at a loss
  2. 2 unable to do anything about it
  3. 3 to have no choice

Idioms (20)

以言代法
yǐ yán dài fǎ
  1. 1 to substitute one's words for the law (idiom); high-handedly putting one's orders above the law
以言代法，以权压法
yǐ yán dài fǎ , yǐ quán yā fǎ
  1. 1 to substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior
  2. 2 Might makes right.
以身试法
yǐ shēn shì fǎ
  1. 1 to challenge the law (idiom)
  2. 2 to knowingly violate the law
和尚打伞，无法无天
hé shang dǎ sǎn , wú fǎ wú tiān
  1. 1 lit. like a monk holding an umbrella — no hair, no sky (idiom) (punning on 髮|发[fà] vs 法[fǎ])
  2. 2 fig. defying the law and the principles of heaven
  3. 3 lawless
执法如山
zhí fǎ rú shān
  1. 1 to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly

Sample Sentences

就是，上次我去芬兰，天下着雪呢，我们到餐厅吃饭，人家硬是一壶带冰的水放你面前。我看着就起鸡皮，没法喝，还好我随身带了保温杯。
jiùshì ，shàngcì wǒ qù Fēnlán ，tiān xià zhe xuě ne ，wǒmen dào cāntīng chī fàn ，rénjia yìngshì yī hú dài bīng de shuǐ fàng nǐ miànqián 。wǒ kàn zhe jiù qǐ jīpí ，méifǎ hē ，háihǎo wǒ suíshēn dài le bǎowēnbēi 。
Exactly, the last time I visited Finland, it was snowing. We went to a restaurant to eat and they served us with a pot of ice water. Just looking at it gave me goosebumps. I could not drink it but fortunately I brought my thermos mug.
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幸好你帮我叫了车，不然我肯定没法平安回家。
xìnghǎo nǐ bāng wǒ jiào le chē ，bùrán wǒ kěndìng méifǎ píng ān huíjiā 。
Luckily you called a cab for me, otherwise I definitely wouldn't have gotten home safe and sound.
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但后来刘北北她们知道这事后就一个劲的起 哄我也没法一下子说明白。所以……
dàn hòulái Liúběiběi tāmen zhīdào zhè shì hòu jiù yī ge jìn de qǐhòng wǒ yě méifǎ yīxiàzi shuō míngbai 。suǒyǐ ……
But afterwards Liu Beibei and those girls knew about it and relentlessly teased me, I didn't have a chance to explain all at once. So....
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连看个足球，都要跟我抢电视遥控器。这日子没法过了！
lián kàn gè zúqiú ，dōu yào gēn wǒ qiǎng diànshì yáokòngqì 。zhè rìzi méifǎ guò le ！
Even when I am watching a soccer game, you have to fight for the TV remote control. I can't take it!
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都是利益惹的祸！商家一看，别人都造假，自己不造假的话成本太高，生意就没法做了。
dōu shì lìyì rědehuò ！shāngjiā yī kàn ，biérén dōu zàojiǎ ，zìjǐ bù zàojiǎ dehuà chéngběn tài gāo ，shēngyì jiù méifǎ zuò le 。
It's all the pursuit of profit that's caused this catastrophe. Businessmen think that if someone else is faking it and I don't fake it then the costs are too great. There's just no other way to do business.
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我们系里很严格，估计没法造假。
wǒmen xìlǐ hěn yángé ，gūjì méifǎ zàojiǎ 。
Our department is really strict. I don't think there's any way to lie about that.
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他们没法帮我。我太绝望了！最简单的办法，就是我去死。我死了，他就满意了。
tāmen méifǎ bāng wǒ 。wǒ tài juéwàng le ！zuì jiǎndān de bànfǎ ，jiùshì wǒ qù sǐ 。wǒ sǐ le ，tā jiù mǎnyì le 。
They have no way of helping me. It's hopeless! The easiest way would be for me to just die. If I died, he would be satisfied.
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可是什么调料都没有，还是没法做。
kěshì shénme tiáoliào dōu méiyǒu ，háishì méifǎ zuò 。
But we don't have any seasonings at all. We still can't make anything.
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