拔苗助長
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Chinese[edit]
pull up; pull out; select pull up; pull out; select; promote |
sprout; seedling; descendant sprout; seedling; descendant; symptom of a trend; young; vaccine; Miao tribe |
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trad. (拔苗助長) | 拔 | 苗 | 助長 | |
simp. (拔苗助长) | 拔 | 苗 | 助长 | |
Literally: “to try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward”. |
Etymology[edit]
See 揠苗助長/揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng).
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
拔苗助長
- (figurative) to be hasty and use inappropriate methods in order to achieve a goal quickly, but by doing so ruin things instead and fail in the end