EPISODE · Mar 4, 2026 · 2 MIN
断章取义 (duàn zhāng qǔ yì)
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📖 Today's 成语: 断章取义 (duàn zhāng qǔ yì)Meaning: Taking things out of contextSummary: 断章取义 (duàn zhāng qǔ yì) is a four-character idiom used to criticize the act of cherry-picking words while ignoring their surrounding context. While it originated as a sophisticated diplomatic technique for quoting poetry, it is now used almost exclusively to describe the unfair distortion of someone's words, similar to the English concept of "quoting out of context."Read the full transcript with multilingual translations, meaning/usage notes, examples, and cultural context:断章取义 (duàn zhāng qǔ yì) | 每天成语
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📖 Today's 成语: 断章取义 (duàn zhāng qǔ yì) Meaning: Taking things out of context Summary: 断章取义 (duàn zhāng qǔ yì) is a four-character idiom used to criticize the act of cherry-picking words while ignoring their surrounding context. While it originated as a sophisticated diplomatic technique for quoting poetry, it is now used almost exclusively to describe the unfair distortion of someone's words, similar to the English concept of "quoting out of context." Read the full transcript with multilingual...
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