埋头苦干

埋頭苦幹
máitóukǔgàn
idiom #30,962

Meanings

  1. 1 to bury oneself in work
  2. 2 to toil away head-down; to grind quietly

Examples

Tā máitóukǔgàn le shí nián.
He has toiled away for ten years with his head down.
Yǔqí bàoyuàn, bùrú máitóukǔgàn.
Better to put your head down and work hard than to complain.
Gōngchéngshī men máitóukǔgàn, zhōngyú gōngkè le nántí.
The engineers toiled head-down and finally cracked the problem.

Tips

memory
埋头 literally = 'bury your head' — picture someone bent over work so intently they never look up. = 'bitter grind'. The image is total focused effort without fanfare.

Stroke Order

mái
tóu
gàn