"Notion" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 guān niàn notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions
 xiǎng fǎ way of thinking / opinion / notion / to think of a way (to do sth) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 yǐ wéi to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken &ndash / except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
 xiān rù wéi zhǔ the first impression is the strongest / to hold a preconceived notion (about sth)
 shēn míng dà yì to have a high notion of one's duty / to be highly principled
 qiǎng pò guān niàn compelling notion / obsession
 xīn lǐ zuò yòng a perception that doesn't reflect reality / a notion based on an erroneous belief
 guài niàn tou eccentric notion / strange whim
 chōu xiàng gài niàn abstract notion
 běn zuì actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪)
 xiào pín bù xiào chāng the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty / lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
 zì zuì actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) / conscious sin
 wěi mìng tí false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise)
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