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back; behind; rear back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later |
to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop |
system; to make; to manufacture system; to make; to manufacture; to control; to regulate |
man; person; people
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Pronunciation
Idiom
後發制人
- to gain mastery by striking only after the enemy had struck
都是雙方強弱不同，弱者先讓一步，後發制人，因而戰勝的。 [MSC, trad.]
都是双方强弱不同，弱者先让一步，后发制人，因而战胜的。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Dōu shì shuāngfāng qiángruò bùtóng, ruòzhě xiān ràng yībù, hòufāzhìrén, yīn'ér zhànshèng de.
- In each case the contending sides were unequal, and the weaker side, yielding some ground at first, gained mastery by striking only after the enemy had struck and so defeated the stronger side.
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