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刻鹄类鹜

kè hú lèi wù

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Definitions

  1. 1. to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
  2. 2. to fail utterly in trying to copy something
  3. 3. to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result