"Gains" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 guǒ shí fruit (produced by a plant) / (fig.) fruits (of success etc) / results / gains
 suǒ dé what one acquires / one's gains
 lì hài pros and cons / advantages and disadvantages / gains and losses
 dé shī gains and losses / success and failure / merits and demerits
 dé bù cháng shī the gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
 yóu shuǐ grease / profit / ill-gotten gains
 yī jǔ liǎng dé one move, two gains (idiom) / two birds with one stone
 huàn dé huàn shī to worry about personal gains and losses
 dé cùn jìn chǐ lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom) / fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
 hèng cái easy money / windfall / ill-gotten gains / undeserved fortune / illegal profit
 fēi zéi cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder
 fēn zāng to share the booty / to divide ill-gotten gains
 bù yì zhī cái ill-gotten wealth or gains
 yù qǔ gū yǔ variant of 欲取姑與|欲取姑与[yu4 qu3 gu1 yu3] / to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)
 chéng bài dé shī lit. success and failure, the gains and losses (idiom) / fig. to weigh up various factors
 ná de qǐ fàng de xià lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
 yǒu dé yǒu shī you win some, you lose some (idiom) / gains and losses / trade-off
 yù qǔ gū yǔ to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)
 bǎi shèng nán lu:4 dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[Liu2 Yu3 xi1]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
 chí yǒu shōu yì holding gains
  holding gains
 huì duì sǔn yì currency exchange gains and losses
  territorial gains
 xié cái windfall / easy money / ill-gotten gains
 cǐ xiāo bǐ zhǎng (idiom) one declines while the other flourishes / one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game)
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