拔苗助长

bámiáozhùzhǎng

try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward—spoil things by excessive enthusiasm

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spoil things by excessive enthusiasm

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spoil things by excessive enthusiasm

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bá miáo zhù zhǎng

v. spoil things by undue haste, try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward, spoil things by excessive enthusiasm

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to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)

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拔(揠)苗助长

bá miáo zhù zhǎng

try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward -- spoil things by excessive enthusiasm (descriptive of a person, impatient for success, so acts as to destroy the very conditions upon which success depends); pull up a seedling in the mistaken hope of helping it to grow; pull up corn by the roots in the hope of making it grow faster; pull up seedlings to help them grow:

用这种方法教育下一代无异于拔苗助长。 To educate the young generation in such a way is just like making the rice shoots grow by pulling them up.

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拔苗助長|拔苗助长 [bá miáo zhù zhǎng] ► to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)