赔不是 (賠不是)
péi bú shi
Pinyin
Definition
赔不是 (賠不是)
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- to apologize
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一问三不知
- 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
- 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
- 3 complete ignorance
一尘不染
- 1 untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
- 2 spotless
一字不提
- 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一山不容二虎
- 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
- 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
Sample Sentences
都什么年代了,你也太封建了吧,都不问谁对谁错,上来直接让女人给男人赔不是,凭什么呀?再说了明明是他错,谁叫他一直调侃我来着。
What era do you think it is? That's a little bit feudal of you, no? You didn't even ask who was in the right and who was in the wrong. Why would you always directly ask the woman to apologize to the man? And another thing, he was clearly in the wrong, who told him he should keep mocking me like that?