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Chinese translation for "好高鹜远"

[ hǎogāowùyuǎn ]
(比喻不切实际地追求过高或过远的目标) crave after [for] sth. high and out of reach; aim too high; bite off more than one can chew; feel inclined to preeminence; hitch one's wagon to a star; reach for what is beyond one's grasp; run after far-off things; try to run before one can walk

Related Translations:
:  名词[书面语] [动物学] (鸭子) duck 短语和例子趋之若鹜 go after sth. like a flock of ducks
外鹜:  [书面语] not concentrate (on any one thing)
鹜溏:  duck-stool diarrhea
嗣鹜:  prometonx
不敢旁鹜:  dare not disperse one's attention
趋鹜时髦:  rush after the fashion of the prevailing mode; be in (the) fashion
秋水孤鹜:  lynn
别鹤孤鹜:  (be like) a widowed crane or a lone wild goose
刻鹄类鹜:  in carving a snow goose, one produces a duck -- the imitation does not quite resemble reality but it is not far away.; try to carve a swan and at least you'll get a duck -- aim reasonably
落霞孤鹜:  setting rosy sun and lone ducks 短语和例子落霞与孤鹜齐飞。 rosy evening clouds and lone ducks fly together.; sunset clouds float with the lone wild ducks
Example Sentences:
1.They have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learnt its necessary limitations .
他们好高鹜远,因为他们还没有为生活而折腰,不知生活的必要限制。
2.Striving to better , oft we mar what ' s well
好高鹜远常常破坏现有的舒适
3.The best is the enemy of the good
至善者善之敌;好高鹜远成就有限。
4.A new place , in a new house , amongst new faces , under new circumstances : i want this because it is of no use wanting anything better
在新的环境新的面孔新的房子中一个新的工作。我只要这个,因为好高鹜远是徒劳无益的。
5.Kin seng leung ka fai has a goal to be in the upper class society but he falls into big debts in the gambling house . so he persuades his loving wife , . .
建筑公司小职员建生梁家辉好高鹜远,以赌求一朝发达而致身负重债,其妻美凤林青霞爱夫情切,不惜亏空公款解燃眉之急。
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