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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

抓紧时间

zhuājǐnshíjiān

to waste no time in (doing sth); to hurry up

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to waste no time in (doing sth); to hurry up

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 抓紧时间 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 抓紧时间 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

请抓紧时间。qǐng zhuā jǐn shí jiān。

Please hurry.

她抓紧时间地阅读一本畅销小说。tā zhuā jǐn shí jiān dì yuè dú yī běn chàng xiāo xiǎo shuō。

She lost no time in reading a best-selling novel.

我们抓紧时间。wǒ men zhuā jǐn shí jiān。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 抓紧时间.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 抓紧时间.

Directly before

  • 她抓紧时间1
  • 我们抓紧时间1
  • 请抓紧时间1

Directly after

  • 抓紧时间地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 抓紧时间

What does 抓紧时间 mean in Chinese?

抓紧时间 (zhuājǐnshíjiān) means to waste no time in (doing sth); to hurry up.

How do you pronounce 抓紧时间?

抓紧时间 is pronounced zhuājǐnshíjiān.

Is 抓紧时间 an HSK word?

抓紧时间 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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