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痛改前非
痛改前非
Chinese
- {| style="clear: right;margin: 1em;border-collapse: collapse;text-align: center"
|- ! !ache; pain; sorrow
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to change; to alter; to transform; to correct
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before; in front; ago; former; previous; earlier; front
!non-; not-; un-
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!simp. and trad.
(痛改前非)
| 痛
| 改
| 前
| 非
|}
Verb
痛改前非
- to sincerely mend one's ways, to thoroughly rectify one's errors