{"path":"/entry/41451","title":"患得患失 (huàn dé huàn shī) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"患得患失 (huàn dé huàn shī): to worry about personal gains and losses. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":41451,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["患得患失"],"TRADITIONAL":["患得患失"]}},"phonetic":"huàn dé huàn shī","phoneticKey":"huan4 de2 huan4 shi1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to worry about personal gains and losses","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":45864,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["得"],"TRADITIONAL":["得"]}},"phonetic":"dé","primaryPhonetic":"de"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Analects, Book 17 (《論語·陽貨》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"子曰：「鄙夫！可与事君也与哉？其未得之也，患得之；既得之，患失之。苟患失之，无所不至矣。」","traditional":"子曰：「鄙夫！可與事君也與哉？其未得之也，患得之；既得之，患失之。苟患失之，無所不至矣。」"},"phonetic":"Zǐyuē: “Bǐ fū! Kě yǔ shì jūn yě yǔ zāi? Qí wèi dé zhī yě, huàn dé zhī; jì dé zhī, huàn shī zhī. Gǒu huàn shī zhī, wú suǒ bù zhì yǐ.”","english":"The Master said, \"There are those mean creatures! How impossible it is along with them to serve one's prince! While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them. When they are anxious lest such things should be lost, there is nothing to which they will not proceed.\"","ref":"The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}