捕风捉影 meaning in Chinese
chase the wind and clutch at shadows -- make groundless accusations; bark up the wrong tree; be a mare's-nest; beat the air; catch [clutch] at shadows; catching the wind and grasping at the shadow; catch the winds and grasp the shadow -- invent a story; grasp at shadows -- to trump; make accusations on hearsay; make up a story; run after a shadow; speak or act on hearsay evidence
Examples
- Don't look for shadows that don't exist .
千万不能捕风捉影啊。 - She never did and never could put words together out of her own head .
她从来没有，也永远不会无中生有，捕风捉影。 - Dorothea checked herself suddenly with self-rebuke for the presumptuous way .
多萝西娅想到这里，蓦地打住了，责备自己捕风捉影。 - Most of those reports were a nightmare-grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue .
那些报道大多数都是一场噩梦离奇古怪，捕风捉影，煞有介事，而且不真实。 - Hearsay to you , pillow talk to the da
对你来说是捕风捉影,对检察官来说是甜言蜜语