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心余力绌
  • [xīnyúlìchù]
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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

心余力绌 [xīnyúlìchù]
  1. 1. [Chinese idiom] Unable to do what one hopes to do.
    我很想帮你, 可惜我心余力绌
    I really want to help you, but I don't have the ability to do so.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

心余力绌 [xīnyúlìchù]
  1. 1. 心里很想干但力量不够。

Examples

我很想帮你, 可惜我心余力绌
I really want to help you, but I don't have the ability to do so. 心余力绌

Word Decomposition


[xīn]
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[yú]
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[lì]
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[chù]

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