I can't do two things at a time.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一心二用
to do two things at once (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to do two things at once (idiom)
02
to multitask
03
to divide one's attention
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一心二用 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一心二用 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You can't do two things at once.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一心二用.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一心二用.
Directly before
- 不能一心二用2
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一心二用
What does 一心二用 mean in Chinese?
一心二用 (yīxīnèryòng) means to do two things at once (idiom).
How do you pronounce 一心二用?
一心二用 is pronounced yīxīnèryòng.
Is 一心二用 an HSK word?
一心二用 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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