Lingaku- to learn a lesson from the mistakes of one's predecessor (idiom)
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- to learn a lesson from the mistakes of one's predecessor (idiom)
This idiom is used to indicate that one should reflect on and learn from the past errors of others, rather than repeating them.
We should keep the lessons from our predecessors in mind.
The company's failure serves as a lesson from predecessors, and we must learn from it.
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qián chē zhī jiàn前车之鉴to learn a lesson from the mistakes of one's predecessoryǐ wǎng以往de的jiào xun教训lessons from the pastjiè jiàn借鉴qián chē zhī jiàn前车之鉴to take a lesson from predecessorsqián chē zhī jiàn前车之鉴bù kě不可wàng忘one must not forget the lessons taught by predecessorsqián chē zhī jiàn前车之鉴，hòu shì后事zhī之Shī师past mistakes can serve as teachers for future actions