莽撞
mǎng zhuàng
Pinyin
Definition
莽撞
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- rude and impetuous
Character Decomposition
Idioms (3)
不撞南墙不回头
- 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
做一天和尚撞一天钟
- 1 lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom)
- 2 fig. to do one's job mechanically
- 3 to hold a position passively
横冲直撞
- 1 lit. bashing sideways and colliding straight on (idiom); to push through shoving and bumping
- 2 to barge
- 3 to charge around violently
Sample Sentences
你这样也太莽撞了。你就不怕家里人担心吗?那个地方我们叫“幽灵湖”,很危险,也很诡异。经常有人莫名其妙地失踪。
You're too rash! Aren't you afraid your family will worry? We call this area ``The Lake of Spirits." It's very dangerous, very eerie. People often mysteriously vanish without a trace here.