麻木
má mù
Pinyin

Definition

麻木
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má mù
  1. numb
  2. insensitive
  3. apathetic

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

木
Mù
  1. 1 surname Mu
麻将
má jiàng
  1. 1 mahjong
  2. 2 classifier: 副 fù
密密麻麻
mì mi má má
  1. 1 numerous and close together
  2. 2 densely packed
  3. 3 thickly dotted
  4. 4 thick
  5. 5 dense
有木有
yǒu mù yǒu
  1. 1 (slang) come on, you can't deny it!
  2. 2 don't you think so?!
  3. 3 (melodramatic form of 有沒有|有没有)
木偶
mù ǒu
  1. 1 puppet

Idioms (20)

一木难支
yī mù nán zhī
  1. 1 lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one is helpless alone
人生一世，草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
你走你的阳关道，我过我的独木桥
nǐ zǒu nǐ de Yáng guān Dào , wǒ guò wǒ de dú mù qiáo
  1. 1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine
  3. 3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine
刚毅木讷
gāng yì mù nè
  1. 1 resolute and taciturn (idiom)
十年树木，百年树人
shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén
  1. 1 It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.

Sample Sentences

鲁迅当年弃医从文，就是觉得精神的麻木比身体的病痛更可怕。他想通过自己的笔唤醒同胞。
Lǔ Xùn dāngnián qìyīcóngwén ，jiùshì juéde jīngshén de mámù bǐ shēntǐ de bìngtòng gèng kěpà 。tā xiǎng tōngguò zìjǐ de bǐ huànxǐng tóngbāo 。
Lu Hsun gave up medicine for literature. He thought that spiritual numbness was even more terrifying than physical pain. He wanted to use his pen to wake up his countrymen.
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骨子里的奴性，势利，逆来顺受，自私自利，都是鲁迅想要写出来给人看，让人反思的东西。如果国民精神麻木，物质再丰富也没用。
gǔzilǐ de núxìng ，shìlì ，nìláishùnshòu ，zìsīzìlì ，dōu shì Lǔ Xùn xiǎng yào xiě chūlai gěi rén kàn ，ràngrén fǎnsī de dōngxi 。rúguǒ guómín jīngshén mámù ，wùzhì zài fēngfù yě méiyòng 。
The servility embedded in peoples' bones, their snobbery, selfishness and willingness to take abuse without fighting back-- these are all the things Lu Hsun wanted to write about to let people see and rethink. If people's spirits are numb, it doesn't matter how materially rich they are.
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