应机立断 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 應機立斷 yìngjīlìduàn ㄧㄥˋ ㄐㄧ ㄌㄧˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ to act on an opportunity (idiom) to take prompt advantage of a situation Character by character 应(yìng)answer 机(jī)surname Ji 立(lì)surname Li 断(duàn)break A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0