「有人辭官歸故里，有人漏夜趕科場」
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| Pronunciation： | jau5 jan4 ci4 gun1 gwai1 gu3 lei5 jau5 jan4 lau6 je6 gon2 fo1 coeng4 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
有 to have; have; to be made up of; to own; to exist; can be found; there is/are 人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person 辭 to decline; statement; speech; to dismiss; to sack; to fire; to resign; to quit; to farewell; to say goodbye; to evade; to refuse; to shy away from; phrases; vocabularies; words; excuse 官 bureaucrat; government official; government; judge; judicial officer 歸 to go back to; to classify; to belong to; to return 故 cause; therefore; hence; past; old; former; late; dead; reason; to intend; incident; story 里 neighbour; mile; alley; lane; village ， 有 to have; have; to be made up of; to own; to exist; can be found; there is/are 人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person 漏 leak; to spill; to leave out; to leave behind; to forget to take 夜 night; night-time; late at night; far into the night 趕 rush; to rush; to hurry; to drive; to try to catch; to hurry to finish 科 subject; bureau; department; law; to levy (a charge); to impose 場 (measure); place; area; venue; field; ground; stage; site; scene; (theatre) scene |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Explanation： |
proverb; for anything no matter good or bad, some people get tired of doing it, whereas others are willing to do anything for a chance at it; literally: some people quit their posts and return home, while others rush non-stop to take the imperial examination in the dead of night
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| Synonym： | Synonym： 一雞死一雞鳴 |
| See also： | 俗話 諺語 格言 金句 |
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