Lose heart
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ī J ī nglu ò C ǎ I, which means that you can't lift your spirits. To describe as dispirited or dispirited. The source is Zhang Sheng cooking the sea.
The origin of Idioms
The fourth fold of Zhang Sheng's cooking the sea written by Li Haogu in Yuan Dynasty: "Xu Jiaqi has no place to pursue, and he is frustrated when he walks on the sea."
Analysis of Idioms
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Idiom usage
As a predicate, attributive, adverbial; used in a mental state
Lose heart
All the people go back to the sea - zhòng liú guī hǎi
hold on to one 's wrong belief till death - zhì sǐ bù wù
burn straws and weeds and water the land - huǒ gēng shuǐ zhòng
the whole country was in a state of upheaval - hǎi shuǐ qún fēi