View source for 閉門造車

{{also|闭门造车}}
==Chinese==
{{was fwotd|zh|2015|May|11}}
{{zh-forms|s=闭门造车|lit=build a cart (behind) closed doors}}

===Pronunciation===
{{zh-pron
|m=bìménzàochē,bìménzàojū,1nb=standard in Mainland and Taiwan,2nb=variant
|c=bai3 mun4 zou6 geoi1
|mn=xm:pì-bûn-chō-chhia/twk:pì-mn̂g-chō-ki/twt:pì-mn̂g-chō-ku
|cat=cy
}}

===Idiom===
{{head|zh|idiom}}

# do something [[irrespective]] of external [[circumstances]]; to operate in a [[vacuum]]
#* {{zh-x|在 ^中國 男籃 敗 在 ^希臘 隊 腳下 後，@^姚 @^明 並 沒有 發火，而是 中肯 地 提出 了 自己 的 意見，他 說：“'''閉門造車''' 打 國內 的 聯賽 永遠 都 是 這樣，必須 讓 他們 出去 打 比賽，不是 一個 一個 隊 的 出去，而是 一個 一個 隊員 的 出去，殺 入 外面 每 一個 隊。這樣，我們 的 籃球 整體 水準 才 有 可能 提升。”|After the men's basketball team for China lost at the hands of Greece, [[w:Yao Ming|Yao Ming]] did not become angry. Instead, he offered his own opinion, which cut right to the heart of the matter, "It will always be like this if we '''operate in a vacuum''', and are forever only playing local league games in our own country. We need to let them go abroad to compete. It's not about individual teams going abroad. Rather, it's about individual team members going abroad and fighting their way onto the teams of other countries. That's the only way we'll be able raise the level of our basketball as a whole.|ref='''2006:''' 宇争 (Yu Zheng), [http://sports.sina.com.cn/s/2006-08-29/1152960500s.shtml 中肯提出意见 姚明:请别再闭门造车] ([[w:Yao Ming|Yao Ming]]'s opinion hits home: "Please don't operate in a vacuum anymore")}}

====See also====
* {{zh-l|閉門造車，出而合轍}}