HSK 4 Adverbs
只好
Have no choice but with 只好
Structure (situation),只好 + the only way out
只好 (zhǐhǎo) means "have no choice but to": given a situation, you take the only option left, even if it’s not ideal. 没有公交车,我只好走路 = "there was no bus, so I had no choice but to walk". It goes before the verb of the forced solution.
Examples
- 没有公交车,我只好走路。
There was no bus, so I had to walk.
- 商店关门了,我只好明天再来。
The shop was closed, so I had to come back tomorrow.
- 票卖完了,我们只好回家。
The tickets sold out, so we had to go home.
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