"Pragmatism" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 实用主义 | shí yòng zhǔ yì | pragmatism |  |
| 机会主义 | jī huì zhǔ yì | opportunism / pragmatism |  |
| 不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫 | bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo | it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black / as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity) | |
