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Chinese
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pull up; pull out; select pull up; pull out; select; promote |
sprout; seedling; descendant sprout; seedling; descendant; symptom of a trend; young; vaccine; Miao tribe |
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| trad. (拔苗助長)
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拔
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苗
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助長
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| simp. (拔苗助长)
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拔
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苗
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助长
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| Literally: “to try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward”.
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Etymology
See 揠苗助長／揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng).
Pronunciation
Idiom
拔苗助長
- (figurative) to be hasty and use inappropriate methods in order to achieve a goal quickly, but by doing so ruin things instead and fail in the end
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