结果只会是两败俱伤 这次他侥幸逃脱
“you'll both suffer. This time, he escaped by luck.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们斗下去
“and fights you,”
结果 只会是 两败俱伤 这次他 侥幸逃脱
“you'll both suffer. This time, he escaped by luck.”
下一次未必
“Next time, he won't.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese strategic thought strongly cautions against conflicts that lead to '两败俱伤' (mutual destruction), advising de-escalation when a fight offers no strategic advantage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
both sides suffer / mutual destruction
Use this chengyu to warn parties that pursuing a fight will leave no winner, only heavy losses for everyone.
narrowly escape by sheer luck
Combines '侥幸' (by pure luck) and '逃脱' (to escape); describes evading disaster through fortune rather than skill.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If we both lose in the end,”
“If you lose, you lose everything.”
“and your group wounded each other in battle,”
“to fail miserably in the end.”
“yet I defeated him.”
“and this is how it ends.”