"compelling notion" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
强迫观念 強迫觀念 qiǎng pò guān niàn compelling notion / obsession
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
以为 以為 yǐ wéi to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) syn
想法 xiǎng fǎ way of thinking / opinion / notion / to think of a way (to do sth) syn
吸血鬼 xī xuè guǐ leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers syn
观念 觀念 guān niàn notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions syn
偏执 偏執 piān zhí extreme and inflexible / fixated / stubborn in clinging to a notion / (psychology) paranoid syn
先入为主 先入為主 xiān rù wéi zhǔ (idiom) the first impression is the strongest / to hold a preconceived notion (about sth) syn
深明大义 深明大義 shēn míng dà yì to have a high notion of one's duty / to be highly principled syn
伪命题 偽命題 wěi mìng tí false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise)
魔性 mó xìng (neologism c. 2014) irresistibly quirky / compelling in its wackiness
心理作用 xīn lǐ zuò yòng a perception that doesn't reflect reality / a notion based on an erroneous belief
怪念头 怪念頭 guài niàn tou eccentric notion / strange whim
抽象概念 chōu xiàng gài niàn abstract notion
本罪 běn zuì actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪)
笑贫不笑娼 笑貧不笑娼 xiào pín bù xiào chāng the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty / lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
自罪 zì zuì actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) / conscious sin
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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