机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命
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over-calculating backfires

  • created sense approved 机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命/機關算盡太聰明，反算了卿卿性命 · jī​guān​suàn​jìn​tài​cōng​ming, fǎn​suàn​le​qīng​qīng​xìng​mìng · over-calculating backfires

    机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命 / 機關算盡太聰明，反算了卿卿性命

    jī​guān​suàn​jìn​tài​cōng​ming, fǎn​suàn​le​qīng​qīng​xìng​mìng

    over-calculating backfires

    If one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions").

    他一生钻营，结果却是机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命。

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