#Common chinese synonyms discriminated#-5-巴不得，恨不得 As idiomatic expressions often used in colloquial speech, both verbs express a strong wish or an ardent hope for something. While 巴不得 normally express a possible wish, a wish that can be realized, given certain circumstances. 恨不得 generally expresses a strong wish in exaggerated terms, a wish that normally cannot be relized, no matter what. Hence 恨不得 generally conveys stronger emotions than 巴不得. In terms of usage, 巴不得 is used either as a transitive or as an intransitive verb, while 恨不得 can be only be used transitively. 巴不得 can take objects in either their affirmative or their negative forms, whereas 恨不得 mostly takes objects in their affirmative forms.巴不得 can also be used as an attributive with a 的 to modify a noun, while this usage is not application to 恨不得. Besides, the object of 巴不得 can be a clause, a verbal phrase or a noun phrase (especially a noun phrase with a numeral), but what follows 恨不得 can only be a clause or a verbal phrase, never a none phrase. *孩子们巴不得下雪，可以不去上学 *他们巴不得你不去，因为你会给他们添麻烦 *我恨不得插上翅膀立刻就飞到妈妈身边 *忙的时候，我恨不得能有三头六臂。 Exercise 1. 他不让我去，我还（）不去呢。 2. 老师批评我的时候 ，我惭愧的（）转进地里面去。