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| Processed by: | kbaiko (2024-11-15 00:19:46 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 80358 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 1) "learned from one's predecessors" could mean that they passed on their knowledge to the current generation by writing down what they learned or directly via instruction. In fact, it's a lesson learned by *observing* others' failures. 2) It's not necessarily one's precedessors -- it can be a lesson learned by observing *anyone else's* failures -- not necessarily those of one's predecessors. (In none of the examples below were the lessons learned from "one's predecessors".) 3) I think the "lit." part of the idiom is useful in this case because it's a bit cryptic how 前車 means "predecessors" or "others". 4) Variant form: Trad 前車之鑑 has significantly more GV hits (242k vs 157k), and far more TP hits (23 vs 2). * * * Ex. 如此的泡沫機制一旦成形，期盼購屋自住的民眾固然叫苦連天，一旦泡沫破裂，更將重創金融體系及整體經濟，日本「消失的10年」和美國此次的金融風暴都是前車之鑑。 When a real-estate bubble forms, those wishing to buy homes as their own residences start grumbling about affordability, and when it bursts, it can hit the financial system and the whole economy hard. Japan's "lost decade" and the current US financial crisis are two excellent cases in point. 整個八○年代，歐美學者眼中的東亞經濟模範生，在金光閃閃的「儒家美德」桂冠之下，自信滿滿地勞碌下去。意氣風發的小龍領袖們，對於歐美景氣的一片蕭條，也不時有意無意地嘲諷起西方人的懶散，喋喋於社會福利之「前車之鑑」。 Throughout the 1980s, what American and European scholars saw as the East Asian economic model, resting on the laurels of "Confucian values," was self-confidently developed. Ebullient leaders of the Little Tigers, looking at the economic problems of Europe and America, frequently mocked the "laziness" of Westerners and talked about learning from the mistakes of the welfare state. Triumphant captains of industry openly scorned the slothfulness of Americans. 以台灣音樂界為例，過去10年為對抗盜版與非法下載，業者使出渾身解數，如關閉提供正版下載的網站、為數位音樂加密，甚至大動干戈控告未取得授權的網路音樂平台業者（如Ezpeer與Kuro網站）。從音樂產業的前車之鑑中，出版業能得到什麼寶貴經驗？ Take Taiwan's music industry, for example. It has spent the last decade doing everything in its power to stop piracy and illegal downloading of its products. This has included shutting down websites offering legal downloads, encrypting digital music, and even bringing out the big guns to sue online music platforms that haven't secured the rights to songs. What valuable lessons can the publishing industry learn from the music industry's failed efforts? |
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- 前車之鑒 前车之鉴 [[qian2che1 zhi1 jian4]] /(idiom) lesson learned from one's predecessors/ + 前車之鑑 前车之鉴 [[qian2che1 zhi1 jian4]] /lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom)/fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures/ + 前車之鑒 前车之鉴 [[qian2che1 zhi1 jian4]] /variant of 前車之鑑|前车之鉴[qian2che1 zhi1 jian4]/ |