Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom) / One only learns from one's mistakes.
Headword or pronunciation吃一堑，长一智
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trench, rift valley
Headword or pronunciation地堑
(bound form) moat / chasm
Headword or pronunciation堑
trench / entrenchment
Headword or pronunciation堑壕
trench warfare
Headword or pronunciation堑壕战
natural moat
Headword or pronunciation天堑
(civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway)
Headword or pronunciation路堑
Great East African rift valley
Headword or pronunciation东非大地堑
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