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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「蔽聰塞明」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Bi: to cover; Cong: keen hearing; Ming: to smell the fragrance clearly. Cover your ears and shield your eyes. A metaphor for being indifferent to objective things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bì cōng sāi míng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bai3 chung1 sak1 ming4

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