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不由
bù​yóu

cannot help

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
不由 bù​yóu
cannot help adverb
can't help (doing sth); involuntarily

听了这话,我不由暗暗吃惊。

tīng le zhè huà, wǒ bù​yóu àn'àn chī​jīng.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.890 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
19.6 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)