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to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)

忆苦思甜
yì kǔ sī tián
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to recall · memories · CL: gè回忆huí yìto review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) · to recall the past to understand the future温故知新wēn gù zhī xīn
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