多心 (duō xīn) — to be oversensitive, to be suspicious (often in 别多心 or 你多心了)
Definition
多心 (duō xīn) means to read too much into things — to overthink others' words and get suspicious or hurt. Unlike 可疑/蹊跷, which describe an objective situation being odd, 多心 is about the subject's own oversensitive reaction.
verb
to be oversensitiveto be suspicious (often in 别多心 or 你多心了)
Examples
- 多心，。Tā zhè ge rén jiù shì róng yì duō xīn, nǐ bié zài yì.He's the type who gets oversensitive easily; don't mind him.
- ，多心。Wǒ zhè me shuō méi yǒu pī píng nǐ de yì si, nǐ bié duō xīn.I'm not criticizing you by saying that — don't take it the wrong way.
- 多心，。Tā duō xīn le, yǐ wéi dà jiā zài shuō tā huài huà.She got suspicious, thinking everyone was gossiping about her.
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