挖空心思 [
wā kōng xīn si]
cudgel one's brains (for an ingenious device)
- 他挖空心思想勾引那所学院中最漂亮的女生。
He was making a play for the prettiest girl in the college. - “他们一直挖空心思用新方式伤害我们的国家和我们的人民,我们也一样。”
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. - “他们一直挖空心思用新方式伤害我们的国家和我们的人民,我们也一样。”
In 2004, he mistakenly suggested that he was out to harm his own country: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.