忍不住
rěn​bu​zhù HSK5

cannot help

忍不住 rěn​bu​zhù
cannot help verb
unable to restrain oneself from doing something or feeling an emotion

听完这个故事，我忍不住流下了眼泪。

tīng wán zhè​ge gù​shi, wǒ rěn bù zhù liú​xià le yǎn​lèi.

After hearing the story, I couldn't help but shed tears.

cannot help but verb
unable to restrain oneself; cannot help doing something

他忍不住打了一个响亮的喷嚏。

tā rěn​bu​zhù dǎ le yī gè xiǎng​liàng de pēn​tì.

He couldn't help but let out a loud sneeze.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
12.5 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
33.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICTAI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)