learn superficially(mò xué fū shòu)

learn superficially

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ò Xu é f ū sh ò u, which means that knowledge has not been fundamentally studied, only a little superficial. It comes from the ode to Tokyo by Zhang Heng of Han Dynasty.

Idiom usage

Combined; as object and attribute; with derogatory meaning. The original preface of Liang Qichao's collection of essays on ice drinking room in Qing Dynasty: "even if the last scholar is like me, I have discussed it occasionally, but my teacher and friends said that I would pick up the saliva of Western philosophers and send the tongue of others' brains to my pen."

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Heng's "Tokyo Fu" in Han Dynasty: "if the guest is so-called the last to learn and the skin to accept, the ear is expensive and the eye is practiced."

Chinese PinYin : mò xué fū shòu