费劲 (費勁)
 fèi jìn
 Pinyin
Definition
费劲 (費勁)
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              - to require effort
 - strenuous
 
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
清风劲节
  - 1 pure and high-minded (idiom)
 
煞费苦心
  - 1 to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking
 - 2 at the cost of a lot of effort
 
疾风劲草
  - 1 the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister
 - 2 to show one's true colors after a stern test
 
疾风知劲草
  - 1 the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister
 - 2 to show one's true colors after a stern test
 - 3 also written 疾風勁草|疾风劲草
 
疾风知劲草,烈火见真金
  - 1 the storm put strong grass to the test, fire tests true gold (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister
 - 2 to show one's true colors after a stern test
 
Sample Sentences
首先,不管是小鲜肉也好老腊肉也好,你费劲心机撩了半天,他都无动于衷,就别期待什么铁杵成针的了,我们又不是铁匠,及时收手吧。
  First of all, whether it's a tender young thing, or a slightly older and more weathered person, if, however you try and tease it out of him, he remains aloof, don't expect to grind him down, we're not blacksmiths, just stop while the going is good.
是啊,其实仔细想想,如果语言不更新,那我们今天的沟通会多么费劲!好多日常生活中的事物都没办法表达呢!
  Yeah, actually if you think about it carefully, if language didn't get renewed, it would be so difficult for us to communicate! There would be so many things in daily life that we couldn't express!
我可以一心二用嘛。哟, 不愧是大乐队,那么大排场!爵士鼓、小号、长号、萨克斯风、钢琴、还有个指挥。搞这么一场演出还挺费劲的。
  I can do two things at once. It sure deserves the name ''Big Band"-- such extravagance! Jazz drums, trumpets, trombones, saxaphones, piano, and there's a conductor, too. Putting on such a big show takes a lot of work.
嗯,刚开始的。岁月不饶人啊,现在学点东西可真费劲。
  Yeah, I just started. Time and tide wait for no man. Studying stuff now is really tiring.