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bǎi 百 gǎn 感 jiāo 交 jí 集

百感交集 bǎi gǎn jiāo jí

overwhelmed by a flood of mixed emotions

Literally: hundred feeling cross gather

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Origin

From Zhu Xi's writings; the phrase appears in Song prose such as 百感交集,不能自已 and became fixed in Ming-Qing fiction.

How to use it

Predicate; neutral, often nostalgic. Often 不禁百感交集 or 心中百感交集.

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  1. 重返阔别四十年的母校，老人百感交集。
    Chóngfǎn kuòbié sìshí nián de mǔxiào, lǎorén bǎi gǎn jiāo jí.
    Returning to the alma mater he had left forty years earlier, the old man was overcome by a flood of emotions.
    return-again long-parted forty year (attributive particle) alma mater, old person hundred feeling cross gather
  2. 站在领奖台上，她想起这些年的艰辛，不禁百感交集。
    Zhàn zài lǐngjiǎngtái shàng, tā xiǎngqǐ zhèxiē nián de jiānxīn, bùjīn bǎi gǎn jiāo jí.
    Standing on the podium, she recalled the hardships of these years and could not help feeling a rush of mixed emotions.
    stand at podium on, she recall these year (attributive particle) hardship, cannot-help hundred feeling cross gather

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