養精蓄銳
Chinese
- give birth; keep (pets); to support; to bring sb. up; to raise (pig, etc.)energy; perfect; excellent; refined; very; proficient
to store acute trad. (養精蓄銳) 養 精 蓄 銳 simp. (养精蓄锐) 养 精 蓄 锐
Pronunciation
Idiom
養精蓄銳
- to recuperate and build up energy
- 紅軍雖弱,卻養精蓄銳,以逸待勞。 [MSC, trad.]
- 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
- Hóngjūn suī ruò, què yǎngjīngxùruì, yǐyìdàiláo. [Pinyin]
- But the Red Army, though weak, has conserved its strength and stored up its energy, and is waiting at its ease [for the fatigued enemy].
红军虽弱,却养精蓄锐,以逸待劳。 [MSC, simp.]