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もうぼだんきのおしえ

孟母断機の教え

表記・読み:もうぼだんきのおしえ

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    (the lesson that) one should not leave things unfinished

    expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)from a tale about Mencius' mother admonishing him from leaving school early by cutting apart a cloth she was in the middle of weavingproverb