汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 勾心斗角
勾心斗角 (勾心鬥角)
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
Originally refers to the interlacing and ingenuity of the palace building structure / The latter metaphor exhausted his mind, fighting openly and secretly
原指宫室建筑结构的交错和精巧◇比喻用尽心机,明争暗斗。
gōu/gòu xīn () dòu/dǒu jiǎo/jué
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

勾心斗角二十年,他才爬上了这把极有权势的金交椅。

Only after twenty years' jockeying for power did he attain this position of great influence.

贾巴命令两个勾心斗角的心腹去捉拿逃跑的偷渡者。

Jabba tasked his two competing henchmen to capture the elusive stowaway.

那些勾心斗角明争暗斗要么练就他们不坏之身,要么使得他们伤痕累累。

The political fight both with open and secret means either have they not bad body, either to make them scarred.

《被遗弃的秘密》讲述了一对真假姐妹为了二十年前的灭门惨案而勾心斗角,追寻真相的过程。

"Abandoned" tells the story of a secret of true and false sisters for twenty years before the massacre and infighting, search for the truth about process.

这个美丽的首都,就像文明出现以来的所有首都一样,往往是一个搞阴谋诡计和勾心斗角的地方。

This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.

虽然她很喜欢自己的工作,但为了争夺餐厅的主导权,她和高效的WA - 7每天都勾心斗角

Though she enjoyed her work, every day was a duel of superiority against the efficient WA-7, as each vied for mastery of the dining room.

在这样的环境里,员工之间形成了一种恶性竞争的关系,这直接导致了勾心斗角和诬陷中伤的产生。

In that type of environment, a fierce competition develops between co-workers, and this opens the door to politics and backstabbing.

在家族恩怨勾心斗角的阴暗故事中他们带来了光明和幽默,导演从自己带有神话色彩的科波拉家族中发掘出的。

They bring lightness and humour to a dark story of family secrets and rivalries that the director has mined from the imposing mythology of the Coppola family.

想要在一个勾心斗角的行业里保持高标准是件困难的事情,但是还有另一个问题更是让人们聚讼纷纷:商人和政客之间的责任分工。

But there is a stronger argument than the difficulty of maintaining high standards in a dodgy industry: the division of responsibility between corporate and political actors.

每天,她起得比鸡早,睡得比猪晚:清晨,迎着曦微的阳光走上工作岗位;夜静更深,她才能拖着疲惫不堪的身子入睡;单位里的勾心斗角、尔虞我诈,有时令她身心交瘁;可不善交际的他,却不能给予一丝丝帮助,她的眼泪唯有往心里流。

She gets up early and goes to bed late everyday. In the morning, she goes to work with dawn along the way and sleeps with a tired body in the evening.