出处：按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第144页（284字）
为了公事而忘了个人的私事，例大禹治水“三过家门而不入”，这种公而忘私的精神，值得我们学习。
In the long years Da Yu was harnessing the rivers，he passed the gate to his home three times and never entered once．Such selflessness in the face of public duty is worthy of our emulation．