📖 Meaning
The set date or deadline is not far away. It indicates that a planned or expected event will occur soon, within a foreseeable timeframe.
📜 Origin Story
This phrase appears in Mao Zedong's speech at the preparatory meeting of the New Political Consultative Conference held in 1949. He stated that eliminating the remaining enemy forces would still take some time, but that day was 'not far off.' The idiom conveys that a predetermined date or anticipated outcome is approaching in the near future.
💡 Example Usage
这项工程的完工已为期不远。
The completion of this project is not far off.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 为期不远
- Pinyin: wéi qī bù yuǎn
- Literal Translation: as, date, not, far
- Category: Condition
- Characters: 4