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基本释义
  1. 靡:无;初:开始;鲜:少;克:能。 事情都有个开头,但很少能到终了。多用以告诫人们为人做事要善始善终。
出处
《诗经·大雅·荡》:“荡荡上帝,下民之辟。疾威上帝,其命多辟。天生烝民,其命匪谌。靡不有初,鲜克有终。”
英文翻译
  1. almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom)
  2. don't start sth you can't handle