Definify.com

Definition 2024


事與願違

事與願違

See also: 事与愿违

Chinese

{| style="clear: right;margin: 1em;border-collapse: collapse;text-align: center"

|- !

!

 
matter; thing; item; work; affair

!

 
and; to give; together with; take part in; (interrog. part.)

!

 
hope; wish; desire; ready; willing

!

 
to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against

|- !trad. (事與願違) | | | | |- !simp. (事与愿违) | | | | |}

Idiom

事與願違

  1. to get the opposite of what one intended