Read Edit View history 鱼与熊掌 yúyǔxióngzhǎng trade-off Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 鱼与熊掌 (魚與熊掌) yúyǔxióngzhǎng trade-off A situation where one must choose between two desirable but mutually exclusive options, as both cannot be had simultaneously; equivalent to the English idiom 'have one's cake and eat it too'. Frequency Written text 0.375 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
鱼与熊掌 (魚與熊掌) yúyǔxióngzhǎng trade-off A situation where one must choose between two desirable but mutually exclusive options, as both cannot be had simultaneously; equivalent to the English idiom 'have one's cake and eat it too'. Frequency Written text 0.375 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)