做事千万别过于急切,把事情搞砸了。

Never rush, or you risk doing things wrong.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 做事 zuòshì
  1. to work
  2. to handle matters
  3. to have a job
2 千万 qiānwàn
  1. ten million
  2. countless
  3. many
  4. one must by all means
=3 Bié surname Bie
=3 bié
  1. to leave; to part (from)
  2. (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish
  3. (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc)
  4. (bound form) other; another; different
  5. don't ...!
  6. to fasten with a pin or clip
  7. to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement)
  8. (noun suffix) category (as in 性别 xìngbié, 派别 pàibié)
=3 biè to make sb change their ways, opinions etc
4 过于 guò excessively; too
5 急切 qiè
  1. eager
  2. impatient
=6
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=6 handle
=6
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
7 事情 shìqing affair; matter; thing; business

classifiers: ,

8 搞砸 gǎo
  1. to mess (sth) up
  2. to foul up
  3. to spoil
=9 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=9 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=9 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=9 liào unofficial variant of liào