Chinese Idioms ofAugust 2016 （2016-08-05）

Pin yin) bàn tú ér fèi
(Chinese)  半途而废
(Translation) to give up halfway
Word by word English translation:
半half
途way
而then
废 give up
Sample sentence:
kuài dào shān dǐng le ，dà jiā jiā yóu ，bú yào bàn tú ér fèi ！

快到山顶了，大家加油，不要半途而废！
It's almost there, cheer up, don’t give up halfway
(Pin yin)  bǎi lǐ tiāo yī
(Chinese)  百里挑一
(Translation) a top-notch (cream) of the crop
Word by word English translation:
百 hundred
里 inside
挑choose
一one
Sample sentence:
tā shì gè bǎi lǐ tiāo yī de gū niáng
她是个百里挑一的姑娘
She is a girl in a million