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Meaning of 蚍蜉撼树

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
蚍 pí 蜉 fú 撼 hàn 树 shù (Trad.: 蚍蜉撼樹)
lit. an ant trying to shake a tree; to overrate oneself (idiom)
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1
本月
,
美国国务卿希拉里在讨论政治改革时告诉
《
大西洋月刊
》
中国的领导人
“
试图阻止历史前进
,
无疑蚍蜉撼树
”
。
This month Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, discussing political reform, told the Atlantic magazine that China's leaders were "trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand".