Pronunciation g not g ng bàI chui chéng
Interpretation of vertical: close, soon. Things failed when they were about to succeed.
Source "Biography of Jin Shu and Xie Xuan": "There are more temples, but good plans are fruitless; What is the promotion effect of age reduction? "
Besides, he didn't know that the twelve gold medals were fake. Why did he go back and fail? (Qing Wu Ren Jian's "The Present Situation of Monsters Witnessed in Twenty Years" 61)
Synonyms fall short, and all previous efforts are wasted.
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