You must learn from mistakes.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吸取教训
to draw a lesson (from a setback)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to draw a lesson (from a setback)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吸取教训 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吸取教训 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I hope that Tom has learned his lesson.
One must learn a lesson from the difficult situations and bad conditions in one's life.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吸取教训.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吸取教训.
Directly before
- 中吸取教训2
- 从中吸取教训1
- 已经吸取教训1
Directly after
- 吸取教训了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 吸取教训
What does 吸取教训 mean in Chinese?
吸取教训 (xīqǔjiàoxun) means to draw a lesson (from a setback).
How do you pronounce 吸取教训?
吸取教训 is pronounced xīqǔjiàoxun.
Is 吸取教训 an HSK word?
吸取教训 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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