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Chinese
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fortunate; lucky
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disaster; calamity
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music; happy; laugh music; happy; laugh; cheerful
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disaster
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| trad. (幸災樂禍)
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幸
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災
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樂
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禍
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| simp. (幸灾乐祸)
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幸
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灾
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乐
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祸
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Pronunciation
Idiom
幸災樂禍
- to take joy in calamity and rejoice the disaster; schadenfreude
對犯錯誤的同志不給幫助，反而幸災樂禍，這就是宗派主義。 [MSC, trad.]
对犯错误的同志不给帮助，反而幸灾乐祸，这就是宗派主义。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 1956, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論十大關係》 (On the Ten Major Relationships), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Duì fàn cuòwù de tóngzhì bù gěi bāngzhù, fǎn'ér xìngzāilèhuò, zhè jiù shì zōngpàizhǔyì.
- To deny them help and, what is worse, to gloat over their mistakes, is sectarianism.
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