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作茧自缚
Simplified
作茧自缚
Traditional
作繭自縛
Pinyin
zuò jiǎn zì fù
Definition
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist by his own petard
别让自己作茧自缚
Bié ràng zìjǐ zuò jiǎn zì fù
Don't let yourself get trapped by your own actions
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作用
zuò yòng
to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc., as in 抑制作用, inhibition
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作为
zuò wéi
one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
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