覆辙 (fù zhé) — the track of an overturned cart (idiom); a disastrous mistake or policy that one should avoid repeating
Definition
A literary noun from the idiom 重蹈覆辙 ('repeat the same disastrous mistake'). It refers concretely to the track of an overturned cart and figuratively to a past failure whose path should not be followed again.
noun
the track of an overturned cart (idiom)a disastrous mistake or policy that one should avoid repeating
Examples
- 。Wǒ men bù néng chóng dǎo fù zhé.We must not repeat the same mistake.
- 覆辙。Zhè ge jiào xùn tí xǐng wǒ men bì miǎn fù zhé.This lesson reminds us to avoid the previous disastrous path.
- 覆辙。Lì shǐ de fù zhé zhí dé wǒ men shēn sī.The overturned cart of history is worth our deep thought.
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