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垂：接近，快要。事情在将要成功的时候遭到了失败。
[There's many a slip between the cup and the lip;fail in a great undertaking on the verge of success] 功业即将取得成就之时突然失败了 毋使临渴而掘井,功败垂成。——《孽海花》 我明白,这个向来有泪不轻弹的硬汉,之所以伤心落泪,是在为自己那努力多年而功败垂成的事业感到惋惜
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