In your dreams!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
想得美
to have an unrealistically optimistic expectation; (as an interjection) what a dreamer!
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to have an unrealistically optimistic expectation; (as an interjection) what a dreamer!
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 想得美 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想得美 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
"Who's in charge here?" "I am." "You wish!"
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 想得美.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 想得美.
Directly before
- 你想得美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 想得美
What does 想得美 mean in Chinese?
想得美 (xiǎngdeměi) means to have an unrealistically optimistic expectation; (as an interjection) what a dreamer!.
How do you pronounce 想得美?
想得美 is pronounced xiǎngdeměi.
Is 想得美 an HSK word?
想得美 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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