临渊羡鱼,不如退而结网 (臨淵羨魚,不如退而結網)
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 Pinyin
Definition
临渊羡鱼,不如退而结网 (臨淵羨魚,不如退而結網)
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              - better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom)
 - one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
 
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix)
 - 2 not
 - 3 no
 
- 1 if
 - 2 in case
 - 3 in the event that
 
- 1 and
 - 2 as well as
 - 3 and so
 - 4 but (not)
 - 5 yet (not)
 - 6 (indicates causal relation)
 - 7 (indicates change of state)
 - 8 (indicates contrast)
 
- 1 just as in the past (idiom); as before
 - 2 continuing as always
 
- 1 not long (after)
 - 2 before too long
 - 3 soon
 - 4 soon after
 
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
  - 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
 - 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
 - 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
 
一人得道,鸡犬升天
  - 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
 - 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
 - 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
 - 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
 
一个天南,一个地北
  - 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
 
一传十,十传百
  - 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
 - 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
 
一则以喜,一则以忧
  - 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)