Dictionary1 – SMART CHINESE TEACHER

MEANING/意义

得不偿失

EXAMPLES/列句

他为了所谓的爱情辞掉了很好的工作，有点得不偿失。

tā wèi le suǒ wèi de ài qíng cí diào le hén hǎo de gōng zuò ，yóu diǎn dé bù cháng shī .

He resigned from a good job for so-called love. It seems like a bad bargain.

SL	Character	PinYin	Translation
1.	他	tā	he，him; another，other; everyone; meaningless mock object
2.	为了	wèi le	for; for the sake of; in order to
3.	所谓	suǒ wèi	so-called
4.	的	de	used with an adjective or an attributive phrase; used to form a noun; used to emphasize the doer，time or place
5.	爱情	ài qíng	love
6.	辞掉	cí diào	resign a post，sack and get rid of
7.	了	liǎo	understand，know clearly
8.	很	hěn	very，quite
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