Hán
dān
xué

idiom

Meaning of 邯郸学步

邯郸学步 means to imitate others blindly and lose one's own way; to copy slavishly and fail. Pronounced Hán dān xué bù.

  • to imitate others blindly and lose one's own way; to copy slavishly and fail

Definitions & Examples

Xué
wài
guó
jīng
yàn
yào
jié
běn
guó
guó
qíng
 
fǒu
jiù
huì
xiàng
Hán
dān
xué
 
de
hǎo
dōng
西
diū
le
 

When learning from foreign experience, it must be adapted to the national conditions of our own country; otherwise, it will be like the man from Yan learning to walk in Handan, and we'll end up losing our own good things.

máng
zhuī
qiú
shí
máo
 
gǎi
biàn
le
de
chuàng
zuò
fēng
 
jié
guǒ
Hán
dān
xué
 
xīn
zuò
pǐn
lún
lèi
 

He blindly pursued the latest trends and changed his own creative style, resulting in a slavish imitation that produced new works that were neither fish nor fowl.

Jiào
gǎi
néng
Hán
dān
xué
 
chéng
gōng
de
chuán
tǒng
jiào
xué
fāng
quán
pán
fǒu
dìng
 

Educational reform should not slavishly imitate others to the point of completely negating our own successful traditional teaching methods.