彼此 | bǐ cǐ | each other; one another | |
彼岸 | bǐ àn | the other shore; (Buddhism) paramita | |
此起彼伏 | cǐ qǐ bǐ fú | up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuously; occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc) | |
知己知彼 | zhī jǐ zhī bǐ | know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孙子兵法 ) | |
顾此失彼 | gù cǐ shī bǐ | lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom); fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once; cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other |
1 | I always thought my friend Pete had a good future. | |
2 | There are use cases where one is better than the other and most nontrivial apps are a combination of both; it's not an either/or proposition. | |
3 | You must know both your opponent and yourself. | |
4 | So how do you lead and control a city or a state where most people don't know each other, and you can only personally persuade a very small percentage of the inhabitants? | |
5 | In some instances, you might explore your options and move from one type of power to the next. |