Getting addicted to something and having too much of something are two different things.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
两回事
two quite different things
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
two quite different things
02
two unrelated matters
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 两回事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 两回事 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Knowing and doing are two different things.
Management of a company is different from ownership of a company.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 两回事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 两回事.
Directly before
- 是两回事2
- 的两回事1
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 两回事
What does 两回事 mean in Chinese?
两回事 (liǎnghuíshì) means two quite different things.
How do you pronounce 两回事?
两回事 is pronounced liǎnghuíshì.
Is 两回事 an HSK word?
两回事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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