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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 斷章取義 [ㄉㄨㄢˋ ㄓㄤ ㄑㄩˇ ㄧˋ; duan4 zhang1 qu3 yi4]
 lit. to take meaning from cut segment (idiom); to interpret out of context
 to focus attention on one phrase without regard to the meaning of the whole piece