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埋头苦干

mái tóu kǔ gàn

HSK 7–9

Meaning

  • to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
  • to make an all-out effort
  • up to the neck in work

Definition

专心致志，勤奋工作。

To bury oneself in hard work; to work with great concentration and diligence.

Usage

通常用来形容一个人非常专注、努力地工作，不理会外界干扰。

Usually used to describe someone who works with great focus and effort, ignoring distractions.

Examples

  • 1 他每天埋头苦干，终于完成了这个项目。 (He buries himself in hard work every day and finally completed the project.)
  • 2 为了实现目标，她埋头苦干了整整一年。 (To achieve her goal, she worked hard for a whole year.)
  • 3 在实验室里，研究人员埋头苦干，寻找新的解决方案。 (In the lab, researchers are hard at work, searching for new solutions.)
  • 4 他从不抱怨，只是埋头苦干。 (He never complains, just works hard.)
  • 5 我们要学习这种埋头苦干的精神。 (We should learn this spirit of hard work.)

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