损兵折将 [
sǔn bīng zhé jiàng]
suffer heavy casualties
lose one's generals and soldiers
The army is defeated, the generals have been slain.
- 如果美国不再损兵折将,现在就全部从伊拉克撤军,将会怎样?
What if America cut its losses and left altogether now? - 如果说这一指称是无中生有的话,那么巴军不愿意在一场没有多少巴基斯坦人民支持的战争中损兵折将,或者造成大量的牺牲,是很明显不过了。
If there is little evidence for this claim, the army is clearly reluctant to lose many men or inflict great casualties in a war that few Pakistanis support. - 国民党在东北战场损兵折将47万之后逃往台湾,对于自己的失败,台湾的教科书也避口不谈。
The Kuomintang, which lost 470, 000 troops in the northeastern battles and later fled to Taiwan, did not mention its defeat in the textbooks of Taiwan, either.