give up halfway

give up halfway

The synonym "half done" generally refers to "half done" (Chinese idiom). Half done is a Chinese idiom, pronounced B à NT ú é RF è I. Waste: stop. It stopped on the way. It means you can't do things well from beginning to end. From the book of rites, the doctrine of the mean by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty.

idiom

give up halfway

Pinyin

bàntúérfèi

Citation explanation

It's a metaphor for stopping things before they're finished and not sticking to it. In the book of rites, the doctrine of the mean: if a gentleman follows the Tao and gives up halfway, I can't do it. Han Yu's statement on Huaixi affairs: Your Majesty does not hold it firmly. If you give it up halfway, it will hurt the prestige and cost, and the harm will be deep. Chapter 111 of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty. This must be Deng AI's counter measure. The fifth chapter of the book of officialdom: "there is another thing: Once upon a time, the master said," share happiness and share difficulties. ". Now that the master has been promoted and made a fortune, we, as family members, have made great efforts and lost money, only to give up halfway. " Li Baojia, Qing Dynasty (56th chapter of the story of officialdom): if you ask for leave to go back to China, you'll give up the work here halfway. If you can't get a recommendation in the future, you'll have to work hard for nothing. Yao xueyin's Li Zicheng, Vol.1, Chapter 14: "no matter how much risk you take, you can never make the uprising give up halfway!"

Idioms and allusions

Giving up halfway is one of the ancient Chinese allusions, which comes from the book of rites, the doctrine of the mean, written by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty: "if a gentleman follows the way and gives up halfway, I can't do it." The original meaning is to stop in the middle of the road. It means to stop before you finish your career. You can't start well and finish well. It has a derogatory meaning. People who give up doing things halfway are doomed to work hard all their lives and achieve nothing. idiom story in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a virtuous woman in Henan county. People didn't know her name, but she was le Yangzi's wife. One day, leyangzi picked up a piece of gold on the road and gave it to his wife when he got home. The wife said, "I heard that aspiring people don't drink the water of" steal spring "because its name is disgusting. They don't eat the food that other people call to eat, and they would rather starve to death. What's more, picking up what others have lost. It would tarnish conduct. " After listening to his wife's words, Yue Yangzi was very ashamed, so he threw the piece of gold into the field, and then went to the distance to find a teacher to study. a year later, leyangzi came back. His wife knelt down and asked him why he went home. Leyangzi said, "I've been homesick for a long time, and there's no other reason." After hearing this, his wife took a knife and went to the loom. She said sternly, "the silk woven on this loom comes from cocoon and is made by loom. Only when a piece of silk accumulates one by one can it be one inch long; when it accumulates one by one, it can be one foot or even one horse. If I cut it off today, all my previous achievements will be wasted, and my former time will be wasted. " His wife then said, "it's the same with reading. When you accumulate knowledge, you should acquire new knowledge every day, so as to make your conduct more and more perfect. If you come back halfway, what's the difference between cutting and weaving? " He was deeply moved by what his wife said, so he went to finish his studies and didn't return home for seven years. the moral of the story if we give up half of what we do every time, then we are sure that nothing will succeed in the end. Only by sticking to the end and completing one thing by one, can we move forward step by step and go further and further on the road of victory. It's wrong to set a goal, to dare to practice and work hard to achieve it. It's wrong to only dream and give up halfway.

Discrimination of words

[emotional color] derogatory word idiom usage] as predicate, adverbial, attributive, complement grammatical structure] partial formal near synonym failure, beginning without end, shallow taste, stop eating because of choking, stop eating because of choking, half way back, sudden stop, let it go, beat the drum, give up all previous achievements To give up a half way; to drop / fall by the way side; to top a half way