The lack of one basketful of earth spoils the entire effort to build a nine-ren mountain.

为山九仞， 功亏一篑。

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He sent us a basketful of apples yesterday.

昨天他送给我们一篮子的苹果。

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When gather it grain by grain, we soon have a basketful.

等到我们一粒一粒地把它们聚集，很快就集满一筐。

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Meanwhile Yahoo has been quietly amassing a basketful of credentials for being a leader in the field.

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In the Senate, the GOP should easily have won a basketful of new seats but a number of missteps by their candidates have made outcomes uncertain.

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Scott Kay, the pharmaceutical analyst at Banc of America Securities, wrote in a note to investors that while Bristol still faces a basketful of problems, the additional delay is not cause for additional worry.

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