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1 If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.
2 cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task
3 to study diligently

好事多磨

hǎo shì duō mó

1 the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我的大学在市郊，周末回家要坐两个多小时的班车。一般我都是抱着书包，带着耳机，半打着瞌睡来消磨这段时光。不过从那天开始，这一切都改变了。

wǒ de dàxué zài shìjiāo ，zhōumò huíjiā yào zuò liǎng ge duō xiǎoshí de bānchē 。yībān wǒ dōushì bào zhe shūbāo ，dài zhe ěrjī ，bàn dǎ zhe kēshuì lái xiāomó zhè duàn shíguāng 。bùguò cóng nà tiān kāishǐ ，zhè yīqiè dōu gǎibiàn le 。

My university is in the suburbs and so when I go home on the weekends I need to take a bus for 2 hours. I usually hold my bag, put on my headphones and doze off to kill the time. But on this day, everything changed.

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