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"examples": [
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"english": "Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to \"find solution\" or \"evolve an idea\" without making any investigation.",
"ref": "只有蠢人，才是他一個人，或者邀集一堆人，不作調查，而只是冥思苦索地「想辦法」，「打主意」。 [MSC, trad.]",
"text": "只有蠢人，才是他一个人，或者邀集一堆人，不作调查，而只是冥思苦索地「想办法」，「打主意」。 [MSC, simp.]\nFrom: 1930, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《反對本本主義》 (Oppose Book Worship), 《毛澤東選集》 (Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung), English translation based on https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm\nZhǐyǒu chǔnrén, cái shì tā yī gè rén, huòzhě yāojí yī duī rén, bù zuò diàochá, ér zhǐshì míngsīkǔsuǒ de “xiǎng bànfǎ”, “dǎ zhǔyì”. [Pinyin]",
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],
"glosses": [
"to think long and hard; to rack one's brains; to cudgel one's brains"
],
"id": "en-冥思苦索-zh-phrase-IRBB~-CB",
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"think",
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"long",
"long"
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"hard",
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],
[
"rack one's brains",
"rack one's brains"
],
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"cudgel one's brains",
"cudgel one's brains"
]
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"synonyms": [
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"roman": "míngsīkǔxiǎng",
"word": "冥思苦想"
}
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"zh-pron": "míngsīkǔsuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄙ ㄎㄨˇ ㄙㄨㄛˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "ming⁵ si¹ fu² sok³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "míngsīkǔsuǒ [Phonetic:míngsīkúsuǒ]"
},
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"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "míngsihkǔsuǒ"
},
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"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "ming²-ssŭ¹-kʻu³-so³"
},
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"tags": [
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"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "míng-sz̄-kǔ-swǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "mingsykuusuoo"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "минсыкусо"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "minsykuso"
},
{
"ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "míhng sī fú sok"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "ming⁵ si¹ fu² sok⁸"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "ming⁵ xi¹ fu² sog³"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪŋ¹³ siː⁵⁵ fuː³⁵ sɔːk̚³/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
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]
},
{
"other": "[Phonetic: míngsīkúsuǒ]"
},
{
"ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪŋ¹³ siː⁵⁵ fuː³⁵ sɔːk̚³/"
}
],
"word": "冥思苦索"
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"english": "Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to \"find solution\" or \"evolve an idea\" without making any investigation.",
"ref": "只有蠢人，才是他一個人，或者邀集一堆人，不作調查，而只是冥思苦索地「想辦法」，「打主意」。 [MSC, trad.]",
"text": "只有蠢人，才是他一个人，或者邀集一堆人，不作调查，而只是冥思苦索地「想办法」，「打主意」。 [MSC, simp.]\nFrom: 1930, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《反對本本主義》 (Oppose Book Worship), 《毛澤東選集》 (Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung), English translation based on https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm\nZhǐyǒu chǔnrén, cái shì tā yī gè rén, huòzhě yāojí yī duī rén, bù zuò diàochá, ér zhǐshì míngsīkǔsuǒ de “xiǎng bànfǎ”, “dǎ zhǔyì”. [Pinyin]",
"type": "example"
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],
"glosses": [
"to think long and hard; to rack one's brains; to cudgel one's brains"
],
"links": [
[
"think",
"think"
],
[
"long",
"long"
],
[
"hard",
"hard"
],
[
"rack one's brains",
"rack one's brains"
],
[
"cudgel one's brains",
"cudgel one's brains"
]
],
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"zh-pron": "míngsīkǔsuǒ"
},
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"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄙ ㄎㄨˇ ㄙㄨㄛˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "ming⁵ si¹ fu² sok³"
},
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"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "míngsīkǔsuǒ [Phonetic:míngsīkúsuǒ]"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "míngsihkǔsuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "ming²-ssŭ¹-kʻu³-so³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "míng-sz̄-kǔ-swǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "mingsykuusuoo"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "минсыкусо"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "minsykuso"
},
{
"ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
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"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "míhng sī fú sok"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "ming⁵ si¹ fu² sok⁸"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "ming⁵ xi¹ fu² sog³"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪŋ¹³ siː⁵⁵ fuː³⁵ sɔːk̚³/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"other": "[Phonetic: míngsīkúsuǒ]"
},
{
"ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪŋ¹³ siː⁵⁵ fuː³⁵ sɔːk̚³/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "míngsīkǔxiǎng",
"word": "冥思苦想"
}
],
"word": "冥思苦索"
}
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