半途而废
Traditional form:
半途而廢
Pinyin (reading):
bàntú'érfèi
Definitions:
- to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished
Characters:
- 半 - half; semi-, incomplete
- 途 - way, road, path, journey, course
- 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
- 废 - to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate
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