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The featured idiom 「妒能害賢」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Virtuous and capable: people with both virtue and talent; harmful: frame-up. Be jealous of talented people and frame wise people. It means being unable to tolerate people whose talents and moral character are higher than oneself.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dù néng hài xián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou3 nang4 hoi6 yin4
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