轻重主次 (輕重主次)
qīng zhòng zhǔ cì
Pinyin
Definition
轻重主次 (輕重主次)
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- to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point)
- lacking a sense of perspective
- to put the cart before the horse
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 leading role
- 2 lead
- 1 theme
- 2 subject
- 1 landlord
- 2 landowner
- 3 host
- 1 next in sequence
- 2 second
- 3 the second (day, time etc)
- 4 secondary
- 5 vice-
- 6 sub-
- 7 infra-
- 8 inferior quality
- 9 substandard
- 10 order
- 11 sequence
- 12 hypo- (chemistry)
- 13 classifier for enumerated events: time
- 1 to repeat
- 2 repetition
- 3 again
- 4 re-
- 5 classifier: layer
Idioms (20)
一言为重
- 1 each word carries weight
- 2 a promise must be kept (idiom)
三番五次
- 1 over and over again (idiom)
上一次当,学一次乖
- 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- 2 once bitten, twice shy
不由自主
- 1 can't help; involuntarily (idiom)
不知轻重
- 1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
- 2 naive
- 3 doesn't know who's who
- 4 no sense of priorities