{"path":"/entry/106242","title":"进退维谷 / 進退維谷 (jìn tuì wéi gǔ) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"进退维谷 / 進退維谷 (jìn tuì wéi gǔ): no room to advance or to retreat (idiom) · without any way out of a dilemma. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":106242,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["进退维谷"],"TRADITIONAL":["進退維谷"]}},"phonetic":"jìn tuì wéi gǔ","phoneticKey":"jin4 tui4 wei2 gu3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"no room to advance or to retreat ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"without any way out of a dilemma","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"trapped","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"in an impossible situation","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","IDIOM"],"frequency":34933,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":106237,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["进退两难"],"TRADITIONAL":["進退兩難"]}},"phonetic":"jìn tuì liǎng nán","gloss":{"simplified":"no room to advance or to retreat (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Classic of Poetry, poem 257 (《詩經·大雅·桑柔》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"瞻彼中林，甡甡其鹿。\n朋友已谮，不胥以谷。\n人亦有言：「进退维谷」。","traditional":"瞻彼中林，甡甡其鹿。\n朋友已譖，不胥以穀。\n人亦有言：「進退維谷」。"},"phonetic":"Zhān bǐ zhōng lín, shēnshēn qí lù.\nPéngyǒu yǐ zèn, bù xū yǐ gǔ.\nRén yì yǒu yán: “Jìntuì wéi gǔ”.","english":"Look into the middle of that forest, At the herds of deer roaming together.\n[But here] friends are insincere, And do not help one another in what is good.\nPeople have the saying, \"To go forwards or backwards is alike impracticable.\"","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}