A tiny difference is a thousand miles away(chā zhī háo lí，miù yǐ qiān lǐ)

A tiny difference is a thousand miles away

The pronunciation ch ā zh ī h á ol í, MI ù y ǐ Qi ā NL ǐ means that although the difference is very small at the beginning, it will cause great mistakes.

explain

Millimetre: a small unit of length. Ten millimetres is one centimeter. loss: mistake. poor: error. although the difference is small at the beginning, the result will be a big mistake.

source

In the Analects of Confucius advanced in the pre Qin period, "too much is not enough.". Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty Annotated: "if the husband is not as good as he is, he is not as good as he is. It's a thousand miles away. "

Examples

1. Wen Yiduo's Quyuan problem: Mr. Sun regarded it as a scholar first and then a jester. In this way, it's really "a tiny difference, a thousand miles away"! 2. Surveying and mapping work is often very poor and fallacious, so it must be very accurate and must not be careless. (3) Chen Shu. Biography of Yu Li: "when the bandits are alone in heaven, they are also responsible for human affairs. The slightest error is a thousand miles away. Is it because wise people are not inclined to attach importance to their positions and hold great integrity without losing it 4. Selected works of the ten years before the revolution of 1911. Anarchism: a little bit is wrong, a thousand miles is wrong. Once the purpose is lost, all kinds of things will be unimaginable. 5. Chapter 36 of the biography of heroes and heroines by Qing Wenkang: "if you can't get into that secret Hall of Qing Dynasty, if you use a subordinate Zhongshu, you've already" missed the slightest point and made a thousand li mistake. "

usage

A compound sentence; a subject or a clause.

allusion

In the Western Han Dynasty, Zhao Chongguo was ordered by Emperor Xuandi to pacify the rebellion in Northwest China. Seeing that the rebels were not in the same mood, he adopted the method of appeasement, which made most of the rebels surrender. But Emperor Xuan of Han ordered him to send out troops, and the result was unfavorable. Later, he collected military supplies according to the emperor's order, causing a rebellion. He said with emotion: it's really a mistake.

Chinese PinYin : chā zhī háo lí，miù yǐ qiān lǐ