费尽心机 meaning in English
tax one's ingenuity; beat [ransack] one's brains about [with] ...; cudgel [rack] one's brains [wits]; exhaust all mental efforts; exhaust one's abilities; rack one's brains (in scheming); take great pains to ..
Examples
- That made us shape our ends .
这使我们费尽心机。 - She was at pains to get him the things to eat that he liked .
她费尽心机地给他弄合他口味的东西吃。 - It had never reoccurred to him to devise a plan for getting half-crowns .
他也从没感到要为半个克朗费尽心机，耍弄手腕。 - It is impossible, however, to trick natty out in other colours than his familiar ones,
可是费尽心机也不能使纳蒂摆脱本色。