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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「前目後凡」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
目: details;凡: overview. A writing style in “The Spring and Autumn Annals” is that one event appears repeatedly in the text, with the former explained in detail and the latter described briefly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qián mù hòu fán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chin4 muk6 hau6 faan4
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