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发起 to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time)
进攻 jìn gōng to attack / to assault / to go on the offensive / attack / assault / offense (sports)
抄袭 chāo to plagiarize / to copy / to attack the flank or rear of an enemy
众矢之的 zhòng shǐ zhī lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism / attacked on all sides
叫板 jiào bǎn to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge
出其不意,攻其不备 chū , gōng bèi to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3])
对号入座 duì hào zuò to take one's seat according to the ticket number / (fig.) to put (things or people) in their right place / to take a general comment as a personal attack
双管齐下 shuāng guǎn xià lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time / to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
乘胜追击 chéng shèng zhuī to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy
攻击线 gōng xiàn the front line / the attack (e.g. football forwards)
借刀杀人 jiè dāo shā rén to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
反围剿 fǎn wéi jiǎo communist attack against the Guomindang's encircle and annihilate campaign
病入膏肓 bìng gāo huāng lit. the disease has attacked the vitals (idiom); fig. beyond cure / the situation is hopeless
违强凌弱 wéi qiáng líng ruò to avoid the strong and attack the weak (idiom); to bully / also written 違強陵弱|违强陵弱
杀敌 shā to attack the enemy
围魏救赵 wéi Wèi jiù Zhào lit. to besiege 魏[Wei4] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhao4] (idiom) / fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
直捣黄龙 zhí dǎo Huáng Lóng lit. to directly attack Huanglong / fig. to directly combat the root of a problem
迎击 yíng to face an attack / to repulse the enemy
丁玲 Dīng Líng Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party
撕咬 yǎo to tear at (with the teeth, like one animal attacking another)
(bound form) to raid; to attack / (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate / (literary) classifier for suits of clothing or sets of bedding
中间人攻击 zhōng jiān rén gōng (computing) man-in-the-middle attack
奥姆真理教 Ào Zhēn jiào Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
彭德怀 Péng huái Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
疑阵 zhèn a diversion / a feint attack to mislead the enemy


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