包：汉英词典

先天不足，后天失调先天不足，後天失調,

1.to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life2.(fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time

兵马未动，粮草先行兵馬未動，糧草先行,

1.before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers2.an army marches on its stomach

意存笔先，画尽意在意存筆先，畫盡意在,

the idea is present before the first stroke of the brush, when the last stroke is placed the idea shines through

工欲善其事，必先利其器,

To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job

先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐先天下之憂而憂，後天下之樂而樂,

to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳阳楼记[yuè yáng lóu jì] by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[fàn zhòng yān])

先祖

1.(literary) my deceased grandfather2.(literary) ancestors

先公

(literary) my late father

先妣

(literary) my late mother

先慈

(literary) my late mother

先母

(literary) my late mother

先贤先賢

(literary) ancient sage