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Introducing the idiom 「松柏後凋」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Only in the cold winter months do we realize that pine and cypress are evergreen. It is a metaphor for people with lofty ideals who fight to the end in difficult circumstances.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sòng bǎi hòu diāo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sung1 paak3 hau6 diu1
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