取長補短
See also: 取长补短
Chinese
- to take; to get; to choose; to fetchlong; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to developto repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
lack; short trad. (取長補短) 取 長 補 短 simp. (取长补短) 取 长 补 短
Pronunciation
Idiom
取長補短
- to learn from others' merits to offset one's weaknesses
- 新老幹部應該是彼此尊重,互相學習,取長補短,以便團結一致,進行共同的事業,而防止宗派主義的傾向。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《整頓黨的作風》 (Rectify the Party's Style of Work), 《毛澤東選集》 (Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung), English translation based on the Foreign Language Press edition
- Xīnlǎo gànbù yīnggāi shì bǐcǐ zūnzhòng, hùxiāng xuéxí, qǔchángbǔduǎn, yǐbiàn tuánjié yīzhì, jìnxíng gòngtóng de shìyè, ér fángzhǐ zōngpài zhǔyì de qīngxiàng. [Pinyin]
- Cadres, new and old, should respect each other, learn from each other and overcome their own shortcomings by learning from each other's strong points, so as to unite as one in the common cause and guard against sectarian tendencies.
新老干部应该是彼此尊重,互相学习,取长补短,以便团结一致,进行共同的事业,而防止宗派主义的倾向。 [MSC, simp.]
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