先天不足
Chinese
- nature; congenital; inherited; innate; inborninsufficient; inadequate; lacking; inadequacy; deficiency; dearth; shortage; want; lack; not enough
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(先天不足)先天 不足
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Idiom
先天不足
- congenital deficiency; inherent weakness
- 第三,日本戰爭雖是在其強的軍力、經濟力和政治組織力的基礎之上進行的,但同時又是在其先天不足的基礎之上進行的。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 毛澤東選集 (1991). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Dìsān, Rìběn zhànzhēng suī shì zài qí qiáng de jūnlì, jīngjìlì hé zhèngzhì zǔzhīlì de jīchǔ zhīshàng jìnxíng de, dàn tóngshí yòu shì zài qí xiāntiānbùzú de jīchǔ zhīshàng jìnxíng de. [Pinyin]
- Thirdly, Japan's war is conducted on the basis of her great military, economic and political-organizational power, but at the same time it rests on an inadequate natural endowment.
第三,日本战争虽是在其强的军力、经济力和政治组织力的基础之上进行的,但同时又是在其先天不足的基础之上进行的。 [MSC, simp.]