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搭错车

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Strokes
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Collocation

1
别搭错车
2
不要搭错车

Definition

搭错车

Literally means:

take the wrong bus

Actually means:

make a wrong decision

It literally means taking the wrong bus so that one is unable to reach his destination. It figuratively means that one is involved in something that is harmful to himself because he has made the wrong choice.

搭乘了路线错搭乘了路线错误的车,无法到达想去的地方。比喻没有做出正确的选择而导致参与或进行了对自己不利的事情。

Example

Used as predicate, and can be used with other words in between. (作谓语,中间可以插入别的词语)
1
Dào
liǎo
guówài
国外
cái
xiàn
发现
  
,
zhè
这次
cuòchē
搭错车
le
  
,
gāi
láidào
来到
zhège
这个
dàochù
到处
zài
zhàng
打仗
de
fāng
地方
gōng
打工
  

To foreign countries he found that this ride was wrong, should not come to this place where the war is going to work.

2
piào
股票
yào
kàn
zhǔn
le
cái
mǎi
  
,
yóu
尤其
shì
yào
不要
máng
盲目
gēnzhāo
跟着
biéren
别人
xíngdòng
行动
  
,
wàn
万一
cuòchē
搭错车
  
,
shì
yào
péiqián
赔钱
de
  

Stocks to see the right to buy, especially do not blindly follow other people's actions, in case of the wrong ride, is to lose money.

3
Yǒu
hěnduō
很多
rén
zài
kǎo
xué
大学
shí
  
,
yóu
由于
méiyǒu
没有
zhèngquè
正确
估计
自己
de
shuǐpíng
水平
  
,
jiēguǒ
结果
cuòchē
搭错车
  
,
xuǎn
cuò
le
xuéxiào
学校
huò
zhuān
专业
  

Many people in college, because they did not correctly estimate their level, the result of the wrong car, choose the wrong school or major.