"只见" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 只见 | zhǐ jiàn | to see (the same thing) over and over again / to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly) |  | |
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| 只见树木不见森林 | zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín | unable to see the wood for the trees / fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture | | |
| 只见树木，不见森林 | zhǐ jiàn shù mù , bù jiàn sēn lín | only see the trees, but not see the forest (idiom, from Mao Zedong, On contradictions 毛澤東|毛泽东, 矛盾論|矛盾论) / to concentrate on minutiae at the expense of the big picture | | |
