📖 Meaning
To win every battle one fights, achieving victory in each and every engagement. The phrase describes an invincible force or commander who never suffers defeat. It emphasizes absolute and consistent success through superior preparation or skill.
📜 Origin Story
This idiom originates from "Guanzi: Qi Fa" (Seven Methods), a text attributed to Guan Zhong, the celebrated chancellor of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period. The passage argues that a well-trained army striking an untrained one will prevail every time—ten battles, ten victories, a hundred battles, a hundred victories. It later appears in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji), in the "Treatise on Tortoise Divination," where it describes the infallible foresight of a sacred tortoise whose predictions always come true.
💡 Example Usage
这支精锐部队训练有素，在战场上十战十胜，令敌人闻风丧胆。
This elite force, rigorously trained, won every battle it fought, making its enemies tremble at the mere mention of its name.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 十战十胜
- Pinyin: shí zhàn shí shèng
- Literal Translation: ten, battles, ten, victories
- Category: Success
- Characters: 4