| Change log entry 70896 | |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2020-10-09 00:44:43 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 67081 - submitted by 'haton' >> https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%A6%86%E8%BE%99 --------------------------------------- Editor: It's boats that "capsize"; vehicles "overturn". It's tracks, not a rut. That's mentioned in the Baike reference: "the track of an overturned cart". But the plural form ("tracks") would be better, since we are talking about a cart rather than a unicycle. A rut is a track that has become permanent as a result habitual wearing ("a track worn by habitual passage"). That's not the meaning of 辙 in 覆辙 -- there's no implication that carts repeatedly followed the same path so as to form ruts. - - - - - - - Examples for 重蹈: 為了避免重蹈上次情人節空手赴約的尷尬場面， Not wanting to repeat a previous Valentine's Day debacle when he had turned up to see his sweetheart empty-handed, 未來孩子是否真能不再重蹈法網？ Who knows whether the children will end up on the wrong side of the law again? 為了避免重蹈過去6次修憲治絲益棼的覆轍， To avoid the entanglements that occurred during the last six amendments, |
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- 覆轍 覆辙 [fu4 zhe2] /disastrous policy/ # + 覆轍 覆辙 [fu4 zhe2] /(lit.) rut of a vehicle which ended up capsizing/(fig.) past mistakes (which should not be repeated)/policy that leads to a disaster/ + 覆轍 覆辙 [fu4 zhe2] /the tracks of a cart that overturned/(fig.) a path that led to failure in the past/ # Adding: - 重蹈 重蹈 [chong2 dao3] /to repeat/to follow the same road as/ + 重蹈 重蹈 [chong2 dao3] /(fig.) to repeat (mistakes made in the past)/ |