the whole picture; entirety
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Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesnoun
the whole picture; the entirety of something (lit. "the whole leopard," from the idiom "guǎn zhōng kuī bào")
literaryDerived from the idiom 管中窥豹 (guǎn zhōng kuī bào, "to look at a leopard through a tube"). Often used in negative constructions such as 只见一斑,未见全豹 (seeing only one spot, not the whole leopard), meaning to miss the big picture. See also the cross-reference to 管中窥豹 in traditional dictionaries.
Zhǐ只
jiàn见
yī一
bān斑
,
wèi未
jiàn见
quán全
bào豹
。
To see only one spot and not the whole leopard—to miss the big picture.
Yào要
xiǎng想
liǎo了
jiě解
quán全
bào豹
,
bì必
xū须
shēn深
rù入
diào调
chá查
。
To understand the whole picture, one must conduct thorough investigation.
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Zhè这
piān篇
wén文
zhāng章
zhǐ只
shì是
jiē揭
lù露
le了
wèn问
tí题
de的
yī一
jiǎo角
,
bìng并
wèi未
zhǎn展
xiàn现
quán全
bào豹
。
This article only revealed one corner of the problem, failing to show the whole picture.