每件事情都有好的一面, 所以不用計算好處, 相反的要追求挫折, 才得到轉機, 洞燭先機.

There's an upside to everything so it's unnecessary to focus on the good; on the contrary, we should instead be pushing for reversals because it's only through setbacks that we improve and see decisive opportunities clearly.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 měi
  1. each
  2. every
2 jiàn
  1. item
  2. component
  3. classifier for events, things, clothes etc
3 事情 shìqing affair; matter; thing; business

classifiers: ,

=4 surname Du
=4 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=4
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
=5 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=5 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
6 好的 hǎode okay; all right; no worries
7 一面 miàn
  1. one side
  2. one aspect
  3. simultaneously... (and...)
  4. one's whole face
8 所以 suǒ
  1. therefore
  2. as a result
  3. so
  4. the reason why
9 不用 yòng need not
10 計算 suàn
  1. to calculate; to compute
  2. to consider; to think over
  3. to plot; to scheme
=11 好處 hǎochǔ easy to get along with
=11 好處 hǎochu
  1. benefit; advantage; merit
  2. gain; profit
  3. also pr. hǎochù
=11 好處 hǎochù
  1. advantage; good point; benefit
  2. gain; profit
12 相反 xiāngfǎn
  1. opposite
  2. contrary
=13 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=13 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=13 really and truly
=13 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=14 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=14 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=14 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭要袅
15 追求 zhuīqiú
  1. to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly
  2. to seek after
  3. to woo
16 挫折 cuòzhé
  1. setback
  2. reverse
  3. check
  4. defeat
  5. frustration
  6. disappointment
  7. to frustrate
  8. to discourage
  9. to set sb back
  10. to blunt
  11. to subdue
=17 cái
  1. ability; talent
  2. sb of a certain type
  3. a capable individual
  4. then and only then
  5. just now
  6. (before an expression of quantity) only
=17 cái
  1. (variant of cái) just now
  2. (variant of cái) (before an expression of quantity) only
18 得到 dào to get; to obtain; to receive
19 轉機 zhuǎn
  1. (to take) a turn for the better
  2. to change planes
=20 dòng
  1. cave
  2. hole
  3. zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)

classifier:

=20 tóng used in 洪洞 Hóngtóng, a county in Shanxi
21 zhú
  1. candle
  2. (literary) to illuminate
22 先機 xiān critical opportunity