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刻鵠類鶩
kè hú lèi wù
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to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom);
to fail utterly in trying to copy something;
to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
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燕雀安知鴻鵠之志
yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì
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lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom);
fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
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燕雀焉知鴻鵠之志
yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhì
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lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
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白鵠
bái hú
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(white) swan
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鴻鵠
hóng hú
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swan;
person with noble aspirations
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鵠候
hú hòu
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to respectfully await;
to look forward to
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鵠的
gǔ dì
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bull's-eye;
target;
objective
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