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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「事往日遷」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

It means that things and times have passed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì wǎng rì qiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si6 wong5 yat6 chin1

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