Definition
冒头 is a separable verb (离合词) meaning 'to begin to appear or crop up', usually of problems, bad trends, or negative phenomena. The verb 冒 and the noun 头 can split: you can insert 了, measure words, or complements between them, e.g. 冒了头 ('has cropped up'), 冒过一次头 ('cropped up once'). The object or topic typically comes before the verb in a 在…中 or 在…上 structure.
v.o.
to begin to appearto crop up (of negative things)
Examples
- 冒头。Zuìjìn zhè zhǒng bùliáng fēngqì yòu kāishǐ mào le.Lately this unhealthy trend has started to crop up again.
- ，。Wèntí gāng mào le tóu, jiù bèi lǐngdǎo fāxiàn le.The problem had just begun to appear when the leader discovered it.
- 。Zhè zhǒng cuòwù zài kǎoshì zhōng mào guò yí cì tóu.This kind of mistake cropped up once in the exam.
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