罪魁祸首 (罪魁禍首)
zuì kuí huò shǒu
Pinyin

Definition

罪魁祸首 (罪魁禍首)
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zuì kuí huò shǒu
  1. criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit
  2. fig. main cause of a disaster

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

首
shǒu
  1. 1 head
  2. 2 chief
  3. 3 first (occasion, thing etc)
  4. 4 classifier for poems, songs etc
首页
shǒu yè
  1. 1 home page (of a website)
  2. 2 title page
  3. 3 front page
  4. 4 first page
  5. 5 fig. beginning
  6. 6 cover letter
元首
yuán shǒu
  1. 1 head of state
匕首
bǐ shǒu
  1. 1 dagger
受罪
shòu zuì
  1. 1 to endure
  2. 2 to suffer
  3. 3 hardships
  4. 4 torments
  5. 5 a hard time
  6. 6 a nuisance

Idioms (20)

低首下心
dī shǒu xià xīn
  1. 1 to be fawningly submissive (idiom)
俯首帖耳
fǔ shǒu tiē ěr
  1. 1 bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient
  2. 2 at sb's beck and call
俯首称臣
fǔ shǒu chēng chén
  1. 1 to bow before (idiom)
  2. 2 to capitulate
千古罪人
qiān gǔ zuì rén
  1. 1 sb condemned by history (idiom)
吊民伐罪
diào mín fá zuì
  1. 1 to console the people by punishing the tyrants (idiom)

Sample Sentences

这还用猜？地球人都知道。温州人里面，十个有九个就是炒房客。温州炒房团开到哪儿，哪儿的房价就疯涨。害得我们买不起房的罪魁祸首就是他们。连老外都怕他们三分。
zhè hái yòng cāi ？dìqiúrén dōu zhīdào 。Wēnzhōurén lǐmiàn ，shí gè yǒu jiǔ gè jiùshì chǎofángkè 。Wēnzhōu chǎofángtuán kāi dào nǎr ，nǎr de fángjià jiù fēngzhǎng 。hài de wǒmen mǎibuqǐ fáng de zuìkuíhuòshǒu jiùshì tāmen 。lián lǎowài dōu pà tāmen sānfēn 。
Do you even need to guess? The whole world knows - nine out of ten Wenzhounese are real estate developers. Wherever Wenzhounese real estate groups open, the housing prices skyrocket. Wenzhounese are the culprits behind us being unable to afford homes. Even foreigners are a little afraid of them.
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万恶的户籍制度啊！上海说是吸引人才，可引进人才又解决不了户口！就算工资高也没有一纸户口让人觉得安定。这户籍制度就是阻碍人才流动的罪魁祸首，早该废除了！
wàn è de hùjí zhìdù ā ！Shànghǎi shuō shì xīyǐn réncái ，kě yǐnjìn réncái yòu jiějuébùliǎo hùkǒu ！jiùsuàn gōngzī gāo yěméiyǒu yī zhǐ hùkǒu ràngrén juéde āndìng 。zhè hùjí zhì dù jiùshì zǔài réncái liúdòng de zuì kuí huò shǒu ，zǎo gāi fèichú le ！
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