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Fall short
Explanation: Loss: lack; basketful: Sheng soil basket. Heap high the mountain nine yards, just missing a basket of earth can not be completed. Finally, only a thin metaphor for things that could not be completed. Usage: Predicate; as predicate; that begin with Source: "A Book of Travel": "as Mountain 9 yards, lost by the wayside." Examples: If not, and inside and outside the court, frequently constraints will make the thieves destroy a major event, ~. (Like Yao, "Rereading," Chapter II 32nd)
gōng kuī yī kuì
Heap mountains of soil and not only owed to the basket of the required height. Describe only the lack of efforts to insist on what the failed
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No. 3
Nine yards for the mountains, fell short of success. - "Book of Travel A (áo)"
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No. 4
Seeing this experiment must succeed, we must adhere to in the end, or fall short, then too bad
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No. 5
"The book A Journey": "as Mountain 9 yards, lost by the wayside." Heap made nine yards high mountain, differing only in a basket of soil and failed. Do one thing only a thin metaphor Finally, efforts have failed. More views with regret. Sima Guang Song, "a new grid investment pot": "Cardiff nine yards for the mountains, fell short of success. The whole pot is difficult, so expensive for a gentleman." "History of Qing Dynasty Soldier 11": "The furnace must not allow suspension of work, military the obtained information, philanthropic, Shu will not fall short too. "Yong Hairpin" Wuchang 2 Diary ":" partisan and more forced to fled the revolutionary cause, a few fall short. "
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No. 6
【词目】:功亏一篑 【解释】:亏:亏欠。比喻做事情只差最后一点没能完成。
【拼音】:gōng kuī yī kuì
【拼音简码】:gkyk
【近义】:功败垂成、前功尽弃
【反义】:善始善终
【英语】:to fail to build a mound for want of one final basket of earth; to fall short of success for lack of a final effort
【辨析】功亏一篑,功败垂成,都含有“以前的努力全白费,最后未完成”的意思。区别在于:功亏一篑含有“失败的原因在于只差最后一点努力”的意思;功败垂成本身没有这个意思。
【故事】:古时,有一个人要筑一座九仞(八尺=一仞)高的山。他堆了一年又一年,不论严寒酷暑,废寝忘食地从远处挖土,再挑土,再堆到山包上,终于有一天,他就要完工了。这一天也如往常一样,鸡刚叫就起床开工,一筐又一筐,眼看着山就要9仞高了,只差一筐土的工夫。但他一摸肚子咕咕叫,天又下起雪来,认为只有一筐土,就回家去了。此后,他总认为只有一筐土而偷懒,所以这一筐土至死他也没堆上,终究这座只差一筐土的九仞高的山还是没有堆成(为山九仞,功亏一篑)。
“功亏一篑”一成语便出于此。
n.: fall short of success for lack of a final effort
v.: failure to achieve success or perfection by a very narrow margin
French Expression
n. œuvre inachevée faute d'un panier de terre, il ne manquait plus qu'une pelletée de terre pour réussir, avoir ses projets ruinés au moment où l'on se croyait près de réussir (成语)
Thesaurus
be irrevocally lost as sth. is thrown into the eastward flowing stream, all one's efforts wasted, There's many a slip between the cup and the lip; fail in a great undertaking on the verge of success, Guilengzhichuang, (usually said of a martyr, hero, etc.) to die before the fulfilment of his ambition or aspiration
Antonym
You pays your money and takes your choice., Jinru wish, be in one's element (like fish in water), fruits fall off when ripe— things will be easily _set_tled when conditions are ripe, Guashushengluo, win instant success, try to find humanity and finally get if, sit pretty
Containing Phrases
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