不自量 meaning in English
not take a proper measure of oneself; overrate one's own abilities; do sth. beyond one's ability or strength; overconfident; be unaware of one's own limitations [impotence; weaknesses]; go beyond one's depth; kick against the pricks; not to estimate properly one's own power; not to know one's own limits; overrate oneself; put a quart into a pint pot; undertake what is beyond one's power 短语和例子
Examples
- Jones was not so vain and senseless a coxcomb as to expect .
琼斯并不是那么一个不自量，没头没脑的浪荡哥儿。 - A tiny insect , trying to shake a mighty tree , is ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness .
蚍蜉撼大树，可笑不自量。 - Like ants trying to shake a huge tree , ridiculously overrating themselves ; they were merely like ants trying to shake a giant tree. how they overrated themselves !
蚍蜉撼大树，可笑不自量。