運籌帷幄之中，決勝千里之外

a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)

to move / to transport / to use / to apply / fortune / luck / fate

to plan / operations / logistics

chip (in gambling) / token (for counting) / ticket / to prepare / to plan / to raise (funds) / resource / means

chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket / to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds) / resource; way; means

curtain / screen

lit. to devise battle plan in a tent (idiom) / fig. planning strategies

tent

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

inside / among / in the midst of (doing sth) / during

China / Chinese / surname Zhong

within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right

to hit (the mark) / to be hit by / to suffer / to win (a prize, a lottery)

to decide / to determine / to execute (sb) / (of a dam etc) to breach or burst / definitely / certainly

to determine victory / to obtain victory

victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task)

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away (idiom)

a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

thousand miles distant

outside / excluding

outside / in addition / foreign / external