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费心机

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Collocation

1
费心机做某事
2
必须费点心机
3
他为这事没少费心机
4
大费心机
5
颇费心机
6
白费心机
7
枉费心机
8
费尽心机
9
煞费心机

Definition

费心机

Literally means:

tax ones' ingenuity

Actually means:

make a lot of efforts

心机 refers to one's schemes or ideas. The phrase means thinking of many ways to get a thing done.

心机,计谋或心思。费心机,想了很多办法。

Example

Used as predicate, object or adverbial adjunct,and it can have other words in between. (作谓语、宾语、状语,中间可以插入别的词语)
1
可以
shuō
  
,
shàng
le
zhège
这个
wèizhi
位置
  
,
méi
shǎo
fèi
xīn
心机
  

It can be said that he climbed into this position, but did not take much effort.

2
wèile
为了
zhuīqiú
追求
què
的确
fèi
le
shǎo
不少
xīn
心机
  
,
zhè
shì
bān
一般
rén
hěn
nán
zuòdào
做到
de
  

He did take a lot of effort to pursue you, which is very difficult for the average person to do.

3
Lǎoshi
老实
gào
告诉
  
,
de
底细
men
我们
dōu
hěn
qīngchu
清楚
  
,
jiù
biè
báifèi
白费
xīn
心机
yǎngài
掩盖
de
shēnfèn
身份
le
  

To tell you the truth, we all know your details, so don't try to hide your identity in vain.