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wèi shān jiǔ rèn gōng kuī kuì
shí yǒu rén yào zhú
zuò jiǔ rèn chǐ rèn
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gāo de shān
shí fēn de jiàn zào zhè zuò
shān bìng qiě huā le hěn duō shí jiān
bān yùn
zhōng dāng shān kuài yào jiàn chéng de shí
hòu zhǐ chà zuì hòu lán
de jiù xíng le de shí hòu
fàng le
zhè zuò shān biàn yǒng yuǎn wán gōng
便
zhè diǎn yòng xíng róng
chéng gōng zhǐ yǒu zhī yáo dàn
zuì zhōng shī bài gào zhōng de
Once a man planned to build a terrace.
He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth.
When the mound was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed, the man gave up.
The terrace was never completed.
This idiom means to fail to succeed for lack of final effort.
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