To win without risk is to triumph without glory

[mukita]

Hi everybody!
I need to translate into traditional chinese (with chinese writting) the next quoth:
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory"
thank you so much!

 

[Aoyama]

Bienvenido en el Forum mukita !
My try :
没有危险的胜利是根没有光荣的胜利一样
or无危险之胜利无光荣之胜利
it becomes To win without danger is to triumph without glory in Chinese.

 

[lintaro]

direct translation could be :“没有冒险的成功，好比没有荣誉的胜利”
but in my opinion the meaning of this sentence should be: “胜之不武”

 

[twinklestar]

Bienvenido en el Forum mukita !
My try :
没有危险的胜利是根没有荧光的胜利一样
or无危险之胜利无荧光之胜利
it becomes To win without danger is to triumph without glory in Chinese.

荧光= fluorescence

光荣=glory

 

[twinklestar]

direct translation could be :“没有冒险的成功，好比没有荣誉的胜利”
but in my opinion the meaning of this sentence should be: “胜之不武”

I agree with you basically.

 

[mukita]

thanks everybody for your help!

 

[Aoyama]

荧光= fluorescence

光荣=glory

absolutely. PC typo ...
This being said, I wonder if 荣光 (instead of 光荣) is also possible ?

Let's remember also what the great Corneille wrote :
A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire ...( to win without peril is to triumph without glory) (Le Cid) .

By the way, where does 胜之不武 come from ? 孙子 (兵法) ?

 

[mukita]

what means “胜之不武”literary?

 

[lmyyyks]

what means “胜之不武”literary?

It's a very ancient Chinese idiom.
I think the closest literal meaning is "to win not solely by a fight", that means "to win without a fair fight", "to win with advantages", that's unfair.

 

[aaron792]

I accidentally came up with a not bad translation:
不战而胜，胜之不武。