诚惶诚恐 (誠惶誠恐)
chéng huáng chéng kǒng
Pinyin

Definition

诚惶诚恐 (誠惶誠恐)
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chéng huáng chéng kǒng
  1. in fear and trepidation (idiom); in reverence before your majesty (court formula of humility)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

恐怖
kǒng bù
  1. 1 terrible
  2. 2 frightful
  3. 3 frightening
  4. 4 terror
  5. 5 terrorist
恐惧
kǒng jù
  1. 1 to be frightened
  2. 2 fear
  3. 3 dread
恐龙
kǒng lóng
  1. 1 dinosaur
  2. 2 classifier: 头 tóu
  3. 3 (slang) ugly person
唯恐
wéi kǒng
  1. 1 for fear that
  2. 2 lest
  3. 3 also written 惟恐
恐
kǒng
  1. 1 afraid
  2. 2 frightened
  3. 3 to fear

Idioms (4)

唯恐天下不乱
wéi kǒng tiān xià bù luàn
  1. 1 to wish for the whole world to be in chaos (idiom)
争先恐后
zhēng xiān kǒng hòu
  1. 1 striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
诚惶诚恐
chéng huáng chéng kǒng
  1. 1 in fear and trepidation (idiom); in reverence before your majesty (court formula of humility)
惊恐万状
jīng kǒng wàn zhuàng
  1. 1 convulsed with fear (idiom)

Sample Sentences

好，我们言归正传，上周呢我接到了了钟校长的邮件，可谓诚惶诚恐，校长邀请我参加母校的尖峰论坛并希望我与大家谈一谈外交辞令的相关内容。
hǎo ，wǒmen yánguīzhèngzhuàn ，shàngzhōu ne wǒ jiēdào le le Zhōng xiàozhǎng de yóujiàn ，kěwèi chénghuángchéngkǒng ，xiàozhǎng yāoqǐng wǒ cānjiā mǔxiào de jiānfēng lùntán bìng xīwàng wǒ yǔ dàjiā tán yi tán wàijiāo cílìng de xiāngguān nèiróng 。
OK, now getting back to the main topic, when I received an email from Principal Zhong, you could say I was sent into panic. The principal invited me to attend a summit at my alma mater and hoped that I would be able to talk to everyone about diplomatic rhetoric.
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