"fundamentally flawed notion" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 伪命题 偽命題 | 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) |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 理屈词穷 理屈詞窮 | lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom) / fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position / to not have a leg to stand on | syn | |
| 骨子里 骨子裡 | beneath the surface / fundamentally / at the deepest level | syn | |
| 人之初 | man at birth (is fundamentally good in nature) / the first line of Three character classic 三字經|三字经[San1 zi4 jing1] | ||
| 两码事 兩碼事 | two things that are fundamentally different from each other / two very different things | syn | |
| 人之初，性本善 | man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[San1 zi4 Jing1]) | ||
| 基本完成 | fundamentally complete / basically finished | ||
| 本就 | by nature / fundamentally / inherently | ||
| 以为 以為 | 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 | way of thinking / opinion / notion / to think of a way (to do sth) | syn | |
| 观念 觀念 | notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions | syn | |
| 吸血鬼 | leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers | syn | |
| 偏执 偏執 | extreme and inflexible / fixated / stubborn in clinging to a notion / (psychology) paranoid | syn | |
| 先入为主 先入為主 | (idiom) the first impression is the strongest / to hold a preconceived notion (about sth) | syn | |
| 强迫观念 強迫觀念 | compelling notion / obsession | ||
| 心理作用 | a perception that doesn't reflect reality / a notion based on an erroneous belief | ||
| 怪念头 怪念頭 | eccentric notion / strange whim | ||
| 抽象概念 | abstract notion | ||
| 本罪 | actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) | ||
| 笑贫不笑娼 笑貧不笑娼 | 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 | actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) / conscious sin | ||
| 深明大义 深明大義 | to have a high notion of one's duty / to be highly principled | syn |