功虧一簣的英文：
[Literal Meaning]
success/short of/one/basket
to fail to make a hill for lack of the last basket of soil

[解釋]
堆非常高的山，只缺一筐土而不能完成。比喻做事情只差最后一步?jīng)]能完成。

[Explanation]
to fall short of success for lack of a final effort

[例子]
這個項目只差最后一步就可以完成了，我們千萬不能功虧一簣。

[Example]
The project will be completed with the last step and we must not fall short of success for lack of a final effort.

[英文等價詞]
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

參考例句：
  • Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip
    功虧一簣
  • Failed to succeed by one basket
    功虧一簣
  • An inch in a miss as good as an ell .
    功虧一簣
  • The lack of one basketful of earth spoils the entire effort to build a nine-ren mountain
    為山九仞, 功虧一簣。
  • If you hold out a little longer, you will not fall short of success at the last stage.
    再堅持一下就不至于功虧一簣了。

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