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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

中用 [zhōngyòng]
  1. 1. adjective useful

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

中用 [zhōngyòng]
  1. 1. (usually used in the negative) of use; useful

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

中用 [zhōngyòng]
  1. 1. 管用;能起作用(多用于否定)
    中看不中用
    这事很难办,我去不中用

Examples

古为今用,洋为中用
Make the past serve the present and foreign things serve China.
利用外国工业技术来提高我们的劳动生产力就是洋为中用的一个例子。
When we use foreign industrial know-how to raise our labour productivity, we are making foreign things serve the needs of China.
洋为中用
He is the first person to run the mile in under 4 minutes!
他是第一个在一英里赛跑中用时不到4分钟的人。

Word Decomposition


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