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去芜存菁
  • [qùwúcúnjīnɡ]
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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

去芜存菁 [qùwúcúnjīnɡ]
  1. 1. [Chinese idiom] Remove the dross and retain the elite.
    我们阅读文章要去芜存菁, 举一反三。
    We need to discard the dross and keep the essential parts of a book, and to draw inferences by analogy when we are reading it.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

去芜存菁 [qùwúcúnjīnɡ]
  1. 1. 删去芜杂部分,保留精华部分。

Examples

我们阅读文章要去芜存菁, 举一反三。
We need to discard the dross and keep the essential parts of a book, and to draw inferences by analogy when we are reading it. 去芜存菁

Word Decomposition


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[jīng]

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