审时度势
审时度势
shěn shí duó shì
to judge the hour and size up the situation; to take stock
verb
Traditional: 審時度勢
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- (verb) to judge the hour and size up the situation
- to take stock
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Related Words
品(pǐn)— article
→审度时势(shěn duó shí shì)— to examine and judge the situation
→不以人废言(bù yǐ rén fèi yán)— not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
→五鬼闹判(wǔ guǐ nào pàn)— Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells
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