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Yibaoshihan
  Explanation: Although the most easy to grow plants, sun day, frozen 10 days, and can not grow. Comparison study or work hard a time, and at another lazy, is constant.
  Usage: Joint type; as subject, attribute, object; with derogatory
  Source: Qin Meng Ke, "also about the son," although things are prone world, a day of violence, on the 10th the cold, not to the living also. "
  Examples: The ~, after all no good. ★ Qing Xuan Ding "night rain fall recorded lamp beads prostitutes love martyrdom"
  Story: Warring States period, competition, lobbying style, very popular. To persuade people in general, not only profound knowledge, a wealth of knowledge, especially in a profound and vivid metaphor, to satirical to persuade those in power, the most protruding. Mencius also was a famous gladiator, in "Mencius", "Gao Zi," Part of such a record: Mencius on the King of Qi's stupid, always at his work without persistence, gullible crafty evil of others are unhappy, they blunt his said: "The king was too ill-advised, although the great vitality of the biological world, but you put it in the sun drying for a day, but in the place cold chill it for ten days into it, where it is still alive! I told the king with a very short time, the king even with a little commitment from the good, but as I leave you, cheat you are a traitor again, if you will listen to them and told me how to do? "by , and he made made a vivid metaphor: "chess seem trivial thing, but if you do not concentrate, learn equally well, the next not win, Woodland good autumn is the country's most skilled game of chess, he taught two a disciple, one of the dedicated, always listen to the guidance of Woodland autumn; the other was always afraid of the big swans flying, ready to use the shot geese. two apprentices is a master teaching, learning together, but the latter results have been far worse. This is not their intellectual You What difference, but rather concentrate on the extent of Bu Yi Yang ah; "This is a great teaching meaning of the story, we should learn something, on something, non-dedicated , assiduously not to. If today to do some, leave it, and next day another ten days to do, then how things done well? Study, the success of doing things, and this is a decision factor, it was Mencius who said Bian Jiang, "on the 1st of violence, on the 10th cold of the" streamlined into a "Yibaoshihan," a phrase used to mean studies, work is constant, a claim for cease impermanence. For example, a student, the school was very casual and less time learning, neglect of the time, we would say: He that Yipushihan practice, where they can learn anything?
No. 2
  Sun day, frozen 10 days. Metaphor of learning, work is constant. A phrase from the "also about the son," although things are prone world, a day of violence, 10 of the cold, not to the living also. "
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yī pù shí hán
  Sun one day and cold 10 days. Slack when the metaphor more less effort when there is no perseverance
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No. 4
  Also as "Yibaoshihan."
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No. 5
  【成语】一暴十寒
  【拼音】 yī pù shí hán
  【近义】 三心二意、有始无终、为德不终
  【反义】 持之以恒、有始有终、有头有尾
  【出自】先秦·孟轲《孟子·告子上》:“虽有天下易生之物也,一日暴之,十日寒之,未有能生者也。”
  【解释】即使是最容易生长的植物,晒一天,冻十天,也不可能生长。比喻学习或工作一时勤奋,一时又懒散,没有恒心
  【用法】联合式;作主语、定语、宾语;含贬义 指没有恒心。
  【例子】清·宣鼎《夜雨秋灯录·珠妓情殉》:“而~,终归无益。”
  【相关】
  战国时代,百家争鸣,游说之风,十分盛行。一般游说之士,不但有高深的学问、丰富的知识,尤其是以有深刻生动的比喻,来讽劝执政者,最为凸出。孟子也是当时的一个著名辩士,在“孟子”的“告子”上篇中有这样一段记载: 孟子对齐王的昏庸,作事没有坚持性、轻信奸佞谗言很不满,便不客气的对他说:“王也太不明智了,天下虽有生命力很强的生物,可是你把它在阳光下晒一天,却放在阴寒的地方冻它十天,它那里还活着成吗?我跟王在一起的时间是很短的,王即使有了一点从善的决心,可是我一离开他,那些奸臣又来哄骗他,他又会听信他们的话,叫我怎么办呢?” 按着,他使打了一个生动的比喻:“下棋看起来是件小事,但假使你不专心致志,也同样学不好,下不赢,奕秋是全国最善下棋的能手,他教了两个徒弟,其中一个专心致志,处处听奕秋的指导;另一个却老是认为有大天鹅飞来,准备用箭射鹅。两个徒弟是一个师傅教的,一起学的,然而后者的成绩却差得很远。这不是他们的智力有什么区别,而是专心的程度不一样啊;”这是一个很有教学意义的故事,我们要学习一样东西、做好一件事情,是非专心致志、下苦功夫不可的。若是今天做一些,把它丢下了,隔天十天再去做,那么事情怎样做得好呢?求学、做事的能否成功,这也是个决定因素之一,故后来的人便将孟子所说的“一日暴之,十日寒之”精简成“一暴十寒”一句成语,用来比喻修学、做事没有恒心,作辍无常的一种说法。用来比喻人在学习上抓的不紧,不能坚持,也就不能取得成绩。例如一位同学,对于求学很是随便,学习的时间少,荒废的时间多,我们便说:他这种一曝十寒的作法,那里能学到什么东西呢?
English Expression
  1. n.:  work by fits and starts
  2. v.:   do somethingby fits and starts
Thesaurus
echo, work by fits and starts, Yibaoshihan, restless and whimsical; be fanciful and fickle; in a capricious and jumpy wood, Not the end for the German, in a capricious and jumpy wood
Antonym Group
be willing to toil, spare no effort; go all out; do one's best, have a good command of through diligent study, From all over the town Out, turn out in full strength, body and soul, one's mind is perturbed to forcibly restrain one's temper, application curiousness, constancy, keep one's end up, adhere not to change, granite, persevere, Breathless, go full steam ahead, Gan shi Xiaoyi, The first white north, continue to study even in old age, Hoary head Poor by, Time does not peep Park Garden, exert, Since the 1, have a style of one's own, have a mind of one's own
Containing Phrases
Mencius work by fits and startsMencius work by fits and starts