斷ㄉㄨㄢˋ章ㄓㄤ取ㄑㄩˇ義ㄧˋduànzhāng‑qǔyì

简断章取义

根據自己的了解或需要，任意截取他人詩文或談話的片斷，而不依循其原意。例「造成這樣的誤解，完全是媒體 斷章取義所致」。

英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