望洋兴叹 wàngyángxīngtàn feel powerless Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 望洋兴叹 (望洋興嘆) wàngyángxīngtàn feel powerless idiom To feel frustrated or incompetent when faced with a task beyond one's ability or resources. feel small idiom To gaze at the ocean and lament one's insignificance or inadequacy in comparison to its vastness. Frequency Written text 0.231 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
望洋兴叹 (望洋興嘆) wàngyángxīngtàn feel powerless idiom To feel frustrated or incompetent when faced with a task beyond one's ability or resources. feel small idiom To gaze at the ocean and lament one's insignificance or inadequacy in comparison to its vastness. Frequency Written text 0.231 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
