Tā de shìyè bìngfēi yìmǎ-píngchuān, yě jīnglì guò bùshǎo kǎnkě.
His career has been no smooth road; he's been through plenty of setbacks.
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Literal sense: open plain you could gallop a horse across without obstacle. Figuratively used for situations that unfold smoothly - often in the negative, 并非一马平川, to say things were not that easy.
