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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「以日為年」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Every day seems as long and difficult as a year. Describes an anxious mood. Also written as “day as a year”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ rì wéi nián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 yat6 wai4 nin4
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