Expressions with “不”
不啻=無異 (no difference from)
假如任何人企圖發動攻擊的話,不啻是自殺行為。
不二=最佳(沒有別的)
他是接班人的不二人選
不作第二人想
要找接班人,除了他不作第二人想
不失爲=的確可以算是
其實他的提議也不失爲有效的解決辦法。
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不妨=(我建議)可以
有興趣的民眾不妨在6月30號前前往參觀。
This blog is set up for those who share similar experience in reading Chinese texts in which they knew almost all characters but did not know what the words mean. Through "My Chinese Reading Notes", with valuable inputs from other teachers in CLASS, I hope the Chinese texts are no more a puzzle.
Exprssions with “不+verb”
Continuous, like 不斷/断
不休 as in 爭論/论不休(unceasingly debate),喋喋不休 (chatter like a magpie)
不輟/辍 as in 堅持不輟 (with perseverance)
不絕 as in 源源不絕 (flow in an endless stream), 滔滔不絕 (keeping up a constant flow of words)
不懈 as in 努力不懈 (work indefatigably)
Unbearably …/
不堪 (be too deplorable to) as in
雜亂/杂乱不堪(in unbearable confusion),痛苦不堪 (in unbearable pain)
不堪一擊/击(collapse at the first blow),
不堪設想(cannot be imagined; too dreadful to think of)
One should not
不容 (not allowing) as in
不容忽視 (not to be ignored)
不容否認/认 (not to be denied, undeniable)
不容爭辯 (irrefutable) (see short form in 不爭的事實/实)
刻不容緩 (too urgent to allow waiting)
* not to be confused with “不易”
在大城市裏謀生不易
得來不易的冠軍
One had better not
不宜 ( not appropriate) as in
辦公室裏不宜處/处理私事。
電影裏有不少兒童不宜(觀看)的畫面。