超前消费 (超前消費)
chāo qián xiāo fèi
Pinyin

Definition

超前消费 (超前消費)
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chāo qián xiāo fèi
  1. excessive consumption
  2. overspending on luxuries

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

之前
zhī qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 prior to
  3. 3 ago
  4. 4 previously
  5. 5 beforehand
以前
yǐ qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 formerly
  3. 3 previous
  4. 4 ago
前
qián
  1. 1 front
  2. 2 forward
  3. 3 ahead
  4. 4 first
  5. 5 top (followed by a number)
  6. 6 future
  7. 7 ago
  8. 8 before
  9. 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. 10 former
  11. 11 formerly
消息
xiāo xi
  1. 1 news
  2. 2 information
  3. 3 classifier: 条 tiáo
超
chāo
  1. 1 to exceed
  2. 2 to overtake
  3. 3 to surpass
  4. 4 to transcend
  5. 5 to pass
  6. 6 to cross
  7. 7 ultra-
  8. 8 super-

Idioms (20)

一往无前
yī wǎng wú qián
  1. 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
  2. 2 to press forward
不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
bù gù qián hòu
  1. 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
停滞不前
tíng zhì bù qián
  1. 1 stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant
  2. 2 in a rut
  3. 3 at a standstill

Sample Sentences

你这二十几天能变出几万块钱还银行？我们赚多少花多少，多余的部分再存起来。超前消费，我心里不踏实。
nǐ zhè èrshí jǐ tiān néng biànchū jǐ wàn kuàiqián huán yínháng ？wǒmen zhuàn duōshǎo huā duōshǎo ，duōyú de bùfen zài cún qǐlai 。chāoqián xiāofèi ，wǒ xīnli bù tāshi 。
During these twenty-something days, you're able to change into tens of thousands of dollars to pay back the bank? Let's just spend what we make, and what extra we have we can put in savings. I don't feel comfortable with over-extending ourselves.
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