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晚节不终
Pinyin: wǎn jié bù zhōng

Usage: 主谓式;作谓语;含贬义

Explanation: 晚节指晚年的节操。指到了晚年却不能保持节操。

Source: 《明史·于孔兼传》疏论都御史吴时来晚节不终,不当谥忠恪。”

Example: 但这也不过白圭之玷,并非~。★鲁迅《且介亭杂文末编·关于太炎先生二三事》

No. 2
  Refer to the section of old age can not keep operating. "History in the hole and pass out": "Wu Shu Censor of all the time to later years is not the end, improper posthumous Zhong Ke." Qing Yuan Mei, "With the Garden Poetry Addendum" VII: "Yunnan-Guizhou Governor Yang Qu, word youthful, there are Yin name. into Myanmar after the ruin with things, To late section does not end. "Lu Xun" 且介亭杂文 last series on Recollections Taiyanxiansheng ":" But also, however baigui mar, not later section does not end. "
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No. 3
  晚节不终 ( wǎn jié bù zhōng )
  解 释 晚节:指晚年的节操。指到了晚年却不能保持节操
  出 处 《明史·于孔兼传》:“疏论都御史吴时来晚节不终,不当谥忠恪。”
  用 法 主谓式;作谓语;含贬义 ;用于处事。
  示 例 鲁迅《且介亭杂文末编·关于太炎先生二三事》:“但这也不过白圭之玷,并非~。”
  近义词 晚节不保
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  成语名称 晚节不终 汉语拼音 wǎn jié bù zhōng 成语释义 晚节:指晚年的节操。指到了晚年却不能保持节操。 成语出处 《明史·于孔兼传》:“疏论都御史吴时来晚节不终,不当谥忠恪。” 使用例句 但这也不过白圭之玷,并非晚节不终
  ★鲁迅《且介亭杂文末编·关于太炎先生二三事》
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