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一暴十寒    Add to My Vocabulary

PinYin yī pù shí hán    Simplified 一暴十寒    Traditional 一暴十寒
  1. one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. sporadic effort
  3. short attention span

Chinese meanings
  1. yī pù shí hán
    《孟子·告子》：‘虽有天下易生之物也，一日暴之（‘暴’同‘曝pù’），十日寒之，未有能生者也。’比喻时而勤奋，事儿懈怠，没有恒心。

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