ài | to hinder/to obstruct/to block |
碍 | to hinder to obstruct to block |
碍事 | (usu used in the negative) to be of importance or to matter to be in the way to be a hindrance |
碍于 | for fear of |
碍于情面 | for fear of hurting somebody's feelings; out of consideration for somebody's feelings |
碍口 | to shy to speak out tongue-tied to hesitate |
碍口识羞 | tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment (idiom) |
碍手碍脚 | to be in the way to be a hindrance |
碍眼 | to be offending to the eye an eye-sore in the way |
碍难 | inconvenient difficult for some reason to find sth embarrassing |
碍难从命 | difficult to obey orders (idiom); much to my embarrassment, I am unable to comply |
碍面子 | (not do sth) for fear of offending sb |