She cannot but laugh.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
忍不住
cannot help
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cannot help
02
unable to bear
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 忍不住 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 忍不住 appears in 20 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I could hardly keep from laughing.
He couldn't hold his temper any longer.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 忍不住.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 忍不住.
Directly before
- 我忍不住7
- 她忍不住2
- 人忍不住2
- 再也忍不住1
- 要忍不住1
Directly after
- 忍不住要3
- 忍不住笑3
- 忍不住想3
- 忍不住气1
- 忍不住买点1
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 忍不住
What does 忍不住 mean in Chinese?
忍不住 (rěnbuzhù) means cannot help.
How do you pronounce 忍不住?
忍不住 is pronounced rěnbuzhù.
Is 忍不住 an HSK word?
忍不住 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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