Boasting greater common interests than differences, the two sides should try their best to be friends and partners, not adversaries and enemies.

中美共同利益远大于分歧，双方应该努力做朋友和伙伴，避免成为对手和敌人。

youdao

The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.

水淹没他们的敌人，没有一个存留。

youdao

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

敌人说，我们没有罪。因他们得罪那作公义居所的耶和华，就是他们列祖所仰望的耶和华。

youdao

According to the verse, the Prophet Mohammed said pebbles should not be tossed at adversaries because they neither kill game nor defeat enemies.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

In Jerusalem Tuesday, Mitchell said any disagreement between Washington and Israel are not disagreements among adversaries.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

"Because when American strays from our values, it not only undermines the rule of law, it alienates us from our allies, it energizes our adversaries and it endangers our national security and the lives of our troops,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

"We come here to talk not as adversaries in disagreement but as friends in discussion, " he said.

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But we typically see the consequences of not making adversaries feel good about themselves only when this trait is missing.

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The key for them is to simply not engage their adversaries in a never-ending shootout.

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