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<< review queue entry 69317 - submitted by 'sl89' >> 【Wenlin】 f[ixed].e[xpression]. in a dilemma/predicament 【Pleco】 IDIOM in a dilemma; in an awkward predicament | 我想去看看她, 可是不是时候。不去吧, 又不放心。真是左右为难。 | I’d like to go and see her, but the time is not right, yet I keep worrying about her. What a dilemma! 【LAC】 左也不是，右也不是。形容不管怎么做，都有难处。 | 法理情不能兼顾，使他～。 【MoE】 處境難堪，無所適從。 | 《紅樓夢．第一二○回》：「千思萬想，左右為難。」 | 《文明小史．第五回》：「真正弄得他左右為難，進退維谷，心上又氣又急。」 也作「左右兩難」。 【规范词典】 左也不是, 右也不是。形容无论怎样做都有难处。 鸿渐跟柔嘉左右为难，受足了气，只好在彼此身上出气。 Faced with difficulties from both families, when Hung-chien and Jou-chia had taken all the frustration they could hold, they just had to take out their frustration on each other. 钱锺书《围城》 TP 他指出，有些大廠「獅子大開口」，換裝軟體要收取高額服務費，還一直暗示乾脆買新型機種才有保障，讓他左右為難。 His experience has been that many factories are demanding high service fees to take back their software, and continually hint that the only real guarantee is to replace the whole machine. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place. 想搬家，卻沒有搬遷費；要修房子，政府說違法，真是左右為難。 They couldn't afford to leave, however, and decided to renovate the house instead, but the government said that would be against the law. It was a real Catch-22. 而警方對於要不要大力取締攤販，也很左右為難。 The question of whether to remove vendors presents police with a real dilemma. |
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# 左右為難 左右为难 [zuo3 you4 wei2 nan2] /(idiom) faced with a difficult situation no matter what you do/between a rock and a hard place/dilemma/ # + 左右為難 左右为难 [zuo3 you4 wei2 nan2] /(idiom) between a rock and a hard place/in a dilemma/ # # Editor: adding ~ - 左右兩難 左右两难 [zuo3 you4 liang3 nan2] /dilemma/quandary/Scylla and Charybdis/between the devil and the deep blue sea (idiom)/ + 左右兩難 左右两难 [zuo3 you4 liang3 nan2] /(idiom) between a rock and a hard place/in a dilemma/ |