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Trad. 敵
- (bound form) enemy
- (bound form) to be a match for; to rival
- (bound form) to resist; to withstand
Trad. 禦敵
- armed enemy of the nation
- enemy of the Emperor
- fig. championship challenger
- contender opposing champion in sporting contest
Trad. 敵害
- pest
- vermin
- animal that is harmful to crops or to another species
- enemy
- predator
Trad. 敵情
- the situation of the enemy positions
- intelligence about the enemy
Trad. 敵手
- opponent
- substantial adversary
- worthy match
- antagonist
- in the enemy's hands
Trad. 假想敵
- opposing force (in war games); hypothetical enemy (in strategic studies)
Trad. 敵敵畏
- (loanword) DDVP, aka dichlorvos (an organophosphate used as an insecticide)
Trad. 敵百蟲
- trichlorfon (C4H8Cl3O4P), organophosphate insecticide; also called dipterex
Trad. 邪不敵正
- good will always triumph over evil (idiom)
Trad. 寡不敵眾
- the few are no match for the many
- heavily outnumbered
- facing impossible odds (idiom)
Trad. 如臨大敵
- lit. as if meeting a great enemy (idiom)
- fig. cautious
- with great preoccupation
- with strict precaution
Trad. 腹背受敵
- (idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear
Trad. 亦敵亦友
- (idiom) to be both friend and foe to each other; to have a friendly rivalry
Trad. 富可敵國
- having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom)
- extremely wealthy
Trad. 大敵當前
- (idiom) to be faced with a formidable enemy
Trad. 化敵為友
- to convert an enemy into a friend (idiom)
Trad. 同仇敵愾
- anger against a common enemy (idiom); joined in opposition to the same adversary
Trad. 人民公敵
- the enemy of the people
- the class enemy (Marxism)
Trad. 萬人之敵
- a match for ten thousand enemies
Trad. 敵我矛盾
- contradictions between ourselves and the enemy
- Either you are for us or against us.
Trad. 敵特分子
- enemy agent; spy (esp. from a hostile foreign power)
Trad. 敵眾我寡
- multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius)
- heavily outnumbered
- beaten by the weight of numbers
Trad. 棋逢敵手
- see 棋逢對手|棋逢对手[qi2 feng2 dui4 shou3]
Trad. 與全世界為敵
- (idiom) to fight the whole world
Trad. 兵來將敵，水來土堰
- counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
- to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation