Please note that Tatoeba is a database of sentences, not of brief collocations alone. Try this instead:

Facing a two-year jail sentence for his crimes, Tom realized that now he was up shit creek without a paddle.

This sentence should be tagged as Vulgar or Colloquial.


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That's fair, but I was translating the chinese and I don't know how to write that in chinese.


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Ok, Unfortunately this sentence lacks a subject. It translates directly to seeing every tree as an enemy soldier.


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This is not a sentence; it's just an adjective.

Try something like this instead:

Tom has become somewhat paranoid during the last month; he believes that spy agencies are very interested in his grocery purchases.


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This is an example of a popular style of chinese Idiom, the 成语 chengyu. They are sometimes said without context in games. It's a little hard to explain but old people will just say nonsense idioms at each other as a competition to see who thinks the fastest or just for their own amusement. These idioms do not need to form a cohesive story or sentence. This could be a chinese sentence by itself but in an admitedly limited context.


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The literal translation is To draw blood on the first prick,
One(一) prick(針) meets(見) blood (血)

It's another cheng yu 成语, a four character idiom. My dictionary and my native chinese girlfriend both say it's the chinese equivalent idiom to the english idiom: Hit the nail on the head.


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Unfortunately the chinese is lacking a subject.

That decision was made too hastily would look something like this

那件草率決定

That(那) Issue(件) Carelessly(草率) Decide(決定了)


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That makes it a bit clearer.
Given the limited scope of the chinese, assuming dictionary definitions are not allowed theres no coherent sentence I could form in english to describe this, without adding to the chinese sentence.

Unless you count throwaway remarks, for example someone muttering while watching someone else make a careless decision, this is not a sentence in chinese.


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In that case, the chinese is also not a sentence. This is a Chengyu 成语 idiom.
There is no subject.


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