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半途而废

bàn tú ér fèi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 半途而廢

半途而废 (bàn tú ér fèi) means "to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 半途而废 means

1. to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished

The characters in 半途而废

• 半bànhalf; semi-; incomplete
• 途túway; route; road
• 而érand; as well as; and so
• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate

Example sentences

• 不要半途而废。
  Bù yào bàntú'érfèi.
  Once you have begun to do something, never give up.
• 你做事不能半途而废。
  Nǐ zuòshì bù néng bàntú'érfèi.
  You shouldn't do things by halves.
• 半途而废是你所能做的最糟糕的事情。
  Bàntú'érfèi shì nǐ suǒnéng zuò de zuì zāogāo de shìqing.
  Leaving something unfinished is the worst thing you can do.

Where 半途而废 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bài–bàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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