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idiom: jie ze er yu 竭泽而鱼-drain pond then fishing PDF Print E-mail
to drain the pond to get the fish, to sacrifice future interests to satisfy present need

It is usually indicating the natural resource when people are wasting wasting the natural resoure withour reserving or thinking about future generations interests.

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