Tā xiě diàochá bàogào shí héng méi lěng duì qiān fū zhǐ, háo bù tuìsuō.
When he wrote the investigative report he stood firm against every critic, refusing to back down.
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From Lu Xun's (鲁迅) 1932 poem 《自嘲》 ('Self-Mockery'): 横眉冷对千夫指，俯首甘为孺子牛 — 'with fierce brows I face a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, I gladly serve as the children's ox.' The couplet became one of the most quoted lines in 20th-century Chinese literature; Mao Zedong held it up as a model of revolutionary conduct.
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Always quoted with its twin 俯首甘为孺子牛. 千夫 is 'the thousand men,' a classical stand-in for 'the crowd.' The image is of a single person looking back at the mass of pointing hands with unflinching contempt.
