望城一役他悉数算计满盘落空
“He calculated everything in the battle of Wangcheng, yet his entire plan fell through.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
后路？
“A fallback plan?”
望城一役他悉数 算计 满盘落空
“He calculated everything in the battle of Wangcheng, yet his entire plan fell through.”
“He can barely save himself now. Although the Northern Desert was defeated, this war was like a massive earthquake.”
“He has exhausted every trick and lost everything; he is powerless now.”
Chinese political and military discourse frequently uses Weiqi (Go) or chess metaphors ('盘') to evaluate comprehensive strategic gains and losses.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
every single calculation came to naught / complete failure
Derived from the imagery of a chess board ('满盘'), used to describe a strategy that has failed entirely.
all calculations and schemes
A literary term used in formal analysis to describe the entirety of someone's deliberate ploys.
