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简明释义
十年树木,百年树人
[shí nián shù mù,bǎi nián shù rén]
双语例句
十年树木,百年树人。
It takestenyears to grow trees, butahundredyears to rear people.
中国有句古话:“十年树木,百年树人。”
An old Chinese saying goes, “ It takes ten years to grow trees but a hundred years to rear people ”.
It takes ten years to grow a tree, but a hundred to cultivate a person. —training people is long and hard;cultivating people takes a long time