MEANING/意义
...不住
EXAMPLES/列句
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纸包不住火。You can't wrap fire in paper.
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我不住留学生楼。I don't live in international student dormatory.
COMBINATIONS/组合
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忍不住cannot help but...,unable to stop ... (an action from happening)
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憋不住unable to suppress,unable to hold oneself back,can't control oneself
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对不住(informal) feel sorry
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挂不住cannot hang on,keep falling off; (dialect,figuratively) feel ashamed
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记不住be unable to remember,cannot remember
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禁不住be unable to bear or endure,cannot help but
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经不住cannot resist (e.g. temptation,test)
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靠不住unreliable