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"didn't expect" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
没想到 沒想到 méi xiǎng dào didn't expect
Chinese Pinyin Translation
意 yì idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate syn
倒是 dào shi contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you syn
预期 預期 yù qī to expect / to anticipate syn
期盼 qī pàn to expect / to await syn
意料 yì liào to anticipate / to expect / expectations syn
预想 預想 yù xiǎng to anticipate / to expect syn
算计 算計 suàn ji to reckon / to calculate / to plan / to expect / to scheme syn
料想 liào xiǎng to expect / to presume / to think (sth is likely) syn
守候 shǒu hòu to wait for / to expect / to keep watch / to watch over / to nurse syn
企盼 qǐ pàn to expect / to look forward to / anxious for sth / to hope (to get sth) syn
一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom) / (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success syn
期许 期許 qī xǔ to hope / to expect / expectation(s)
倒 dào to invert / to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out / to dump / inverted / upside down / reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect / but / yet syn
料 liào material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess syn
盼 pàn to hope for / to long for / to expect syn
谅 諒 liàng to show understanding / to excuse / to presume / to expect syn
虞 yú (literary) to expect / to anticipate / (literary) to be concerned about / to be apprehensive / (literary) to deceive / to dupe syn
水至清则无鱼 水至清則無魚 shuǐ zhì qīng zé wú yú Water that is too clear has few fish, and one who is too critical has few friends (idiom) / You cannot expect everyone to be squeaky clean. / Don't be too picky!
翘足而待 翹足而待 qiáo zú ér dài to expect in a short time (idiom) / also pr. [qiao4 zu2 er2 dai4]
狗嘴里吐不出象牙 狗嘴裏吐不出象牙 gǒu zuǐ li tǔ bù chū xiàng yá lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel
有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴 有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰 yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
没找到 沒找到 méi zhǎo dào didn't find
何不食肉糜 hé bù shí ròu mí lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
承望 chéng wàng to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to syn
未料 wèi liào to not anticipate / to not expect / unanticipated / unexpected
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲 bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom) / expect to convalesce slowly
立杆见影 立杆見影 lì gān jiàn yǐng lit. put up a pole and see the shadow (idiom) / to expect instant results
跂想 qǐ xiǎng to expect anxiously
又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草 又要馬兒跑，又要馬兒不吃草 yòu yào mǎ r pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom) / fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
看贬 看貶 kàn biǎn to expect (a currency etc) to depreciate
想当然尔 想當然爾 xiǎng dāng rán ěr to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally
基操 jī cāo (slang) the norm / typical behavior / nothing out of the ordinary / just what you’d expect (often used ironically) (abbr. for 基本操作[ji1ben3 cao1zuo4])
承想 chéng xiǎng (often used in the negative) to anticipate / to expect / to think that sth would happen
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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