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Definitions
1. It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
Components
十年
shí nián
–
decade
树木
shù mù
–
tree
百年树人
bǎi nián shù rén
–
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom)