Kēxuéjiā men bǎizhé-bùnáo, cái yǒu jīntiān de tūpò.
Scientists persevered through countless setbacks — that's how today's breakthrough became possible.
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history
From a Han-dynasty memorial stele honoring Grand Commandant Qiao Xuan as one whose spirit 'could be bent a hundred times yet never broken' — one of the oldest attested perseverance idioms in Chinese.
memory
折 = to bend/break, 挠 = to bend aside. 'A hundred bendings, no yielding' — the bamboo-rod image: flex but don't snap.
