究竟 – vocab dash

究竟jiūjìng

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Meanings

1. to go to the bottom of a matter

2. after all

3. when all is said and done

4. (in an interrogative sentence) finally

5. outcome

6. result

Characters used

究after all 竟unexpectedly

Examples5

究竟jiūjìng谁shéi要yào负责fùzé？

Who exactly is responsible?

“但dàn请qǐng告诉gàosu我们wǒmen，您nín究竟jiūjìng为了wèile什么shénme杀shā了le他tā？”　“是shì为了wèile爱情àiqíng。”

"But tell us, just what did you kill him for?" "For love."

汤姆Tāngmǔ和hé玛丽Mǎlì究竟jiūjìng在zài计划jìhuà做zuò什么shénme？

What exactly are Tom and Mary planning to do?

汤姆Tāngmǔ究竟jiūjìng在zài做zuò什么shénme？

What exactly does Tom do?

人rén获得huòdé自由zìyóu，究竟jiūjìng意味着yìwèizhe什么shénme？难道nándào就是jiùshì从cóng一个yīge牢笼láolóng里lǐ巧妙qiǎomiào地de逃táo出来chulai，其实qíshí只是zhǐshì置身zhìshēn于yú另lìng一个yīge更gèng大dà的de牢笼láolóng。

What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.