不由 bùyóu
bùyóu
verb
can't help
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不由')
Contained in
- 不由自主 can't help; involuntarily
- 言不由衷 to speak without truly meaning it
- 人在江湖，身不由己 you can't always do as you like; one has to compromise in this world
- 不由分说(不由分說) allow no explanation
- 身不由己 without the freedom to act independently; involuntary; not of one's own volition
- 兵不由将(兵不由將) soldiers not obeying their commander
- 不由得 can not help; cannot but ; can not permit
- 行不由径(行不由徑) never taking a short-cut; upright and honest
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- 《雍也第六》 Commentary on Yong Ye VI Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 6
- 卷十八上 本紀第十八上: 武宗 Volume 18 Annals 18: Wuzong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 4
- 卷二十一 魏書二十一 王衛二劉傅傳 Volume 21: Book of Wei 21 - Biographies of Wang, Wei, and the two Lius Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 4
- 議兵篇第十五 Chapter 15: A Debate on use of the Miltary Xunzi 荀子 — count: 4
- 卷二十二 本紀第二十二: 武宗一 Volume 22 Annals 22: Wuzong 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 4
- 周語中 Discourses of Zhou II Guoyu 國語 — count: 3
- 《書‧禮書》 Treatises - Rites Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 3
- 卷第六 力命篇 Chapter 6: Endeavor and Destiny Liezi 列子 — count: 3
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 3
- 卷二百四十 列傳第一百二十八 葉向高 劉一燝 韓爌 朱國祚 何宗彥 孫如游 Volume 240 Biographies 128: Ye Xianggao, Liu Yijing, Han Kuang, Zhu Guozuo, He Zongyan, Sun Ruyou History of Ming 明史 — count: 3
Collocations
- 罔不由 (罔不由) 今爾罔不由慰日勤 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 呂刑 Zhou Shu - Marquis of Lu on Punishments — count: 7
- 靡不由 (靡不由) 靡不由之 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十七 桓榮丁鴻列傳 Volume 37: Biographies of Huan Rong, Ding Hong — count: 7
- 不由礼 (不由禮) 欲察物而不由禮 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮器》 Rites in the Formation of Character — count: 5
- 行不由 (行不由) 行不由路 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十五 指武 Chapter 15: Depending on Military Strength — count: 5
- 不由道 (不由道) 說不由道 — Exemplary Figures 法言, 卷六 問明 Chapter 6: Asking about Wisdom — count: 4
- 不由德 (不由德) 皆不由德 — Exemplary Figures 法言, 卷十 重黎 Chapter 10: Chong and Li — count: 3
- 罚不由 (罰不由) 誅罰不由君出 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 — count: 3
- 不由君 (不由君) 誅罰不由君出 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 — count: 3
- 信不由 (信不由) 信不由中 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 3
- 不由外 (不由外) 言害由中不由外也 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two — count: 3