汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 扬长避短
扬长避短 (揚長避短)
to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses (idiom) / to play to one's strengths
Make use of or carry forward the advantages or advantages, overcome or avoid shortcomings or disadvantages
发扬长处,避开短处。
() yáng () zhǎng/cháng duǎn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

在进出口工作中,我们要扬长避短,趋利避害。

In our import-and-export work, we should foster strengths and circumvent weakness.

也许,你会认为扬长避短才是最佳选择!

Maybe, you would think that foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses is best choice.

也就是说,要知道自己的长处和短处,做出的选择要扬长避短

That is to say, they should know their merits and demerits and their choices must give play to their strengths whilst circumvent weaknesses.

在梳理时要注意扬长避短,便可达到整洁、美观、大方的效果。

Should pay attention to avoid weaknesses in the comb can achieve clean, beautiful, elegant effect.

周公瑾的经历告诉我们:遇到和自己旗鼓相当的对手时,要沉得住气,扬长避短

Zhou Gongjin experience tells us: encounters and their match, to be patient, foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses.

人人皆可成功,人人皆有获得成功的不同路径,重要的是要扬长避短和“扬长补短”。

Although each person can be different in their way to success in life, it is still important to foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses.

东西方教育模式是相通相融的,我们要根据这种互补性,扬长避短,培养学贯中西的人才;

Then the two education patterns were confluent which needed us develop the useful and discarded the useless so as to cultivate the talents with both the West and East knowledge.

本文第二部分将重点分析《半月谈》发展的成功之道,本文认为,“扁担精神”、编辑的“读者心”以及能够“扬长避短、化劣为优”,是《半月谈》成功的三大因素。

The paper maintains that the spirit of the carrying-pole, the editor's sense of readers, the best use of the advantages and bypass the disadvantages are the main successful factors.