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成语 · 半途而废
Stopping halfway, and the wife who cut her own weaving to make the point.
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半途而废bàn tú ér fèito give up halfway; to abandon a thing unfinished
逐字 · CHARACTER BY CHARACTER
| Character | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半 | bàn | half |
| 途 | tú | road, way |
| 而 | ér | and then (classical) |
| 废 | fèi | to abandon, to waste |
Yue Yangzi came home a year into his studies, homesick. His wife took a knife to the cloth on her loom: cut here, she said, and the year of weaving is worth nothing. He went back and finished. 《后汉书·列女传》
用法 · IN USE
Xué yǔyán zuì pà bàn tú ér fèi.学语言最怕半途而废。The one real danger in language learning is quitting halfway.
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