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mángrénmōxiàng
Chinese (Traditional) to English translation and meaning.
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- mángrénmōxiàng f.e. ①take a part for the whole ②draw conclusions from incomplete data
- mángrén-mōxiàng - (idiom) mistake a part for the whole, draw conclusions from incomplete data, lit. "blind men describing an elephant", each one imagining the part he touches is the entire animal.
- blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture; to mistake the part for the whole; unable to see the wood for the trees
