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The featured idiom 「一暴十寒」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Although it is the easiest plant to grow, it will not grow if it is exposed to the sun for one day and frozen for ten days. It is a metaphor for being diligent in studying or working at one time and lazy at another time, and having no perseverance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī bào shí hán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 bou6 sap6 hon4
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