刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后
dāo​bù​mó​yào​shēng​xiù​rén​bù​xué​yào​luò​hòu

knowledge is like a blade

  • created sense approved 刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后/刀不磨要生鏽，人不學要落後 · dāo​bù​mó​yào​shēng​xiù​rén​bù​xué​yào​luò​hòu · knowledge is like a blade — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后 / 刀不磨要生鏽，人不學要落後

    dāo​bù​mó​yào​shēng​xiù​rén​bù​xué​yào​luò​hòu

    knowledge is like a blade

    A blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study.

    刀 (literal) → 刀 · dāo · knife 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 磨 (literal) → 磨 · mó · to rub 要 (literal) → 要 · yào · will 生锈 (literal) → 生锈/生鏽 · shēng​xiù · to rust ， (non_chinese) 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · person 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 学 (literal) → 学/學 · xué · to study 要 (literal) → 要 · yào · will 落后 (literal) → 落后/落後 · luò​hòu · to fall behind

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense