Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.

寡者，备人者也；众者，使人备己者也。

So when the two face each other, the left-hander will be better prepared against this right-handed opponent, while the righty will be thrown off.

所以当他们面对面对抗时，左撇子会更熟练地对抗右撇子对手，然而右撇子的就无力对抗了。

Threat models let you prepare against specific threats, rather than being overwhelmed by all the ways hackers could get to your systems and data.

威胁模型可让您针对特定威胁做好准备，而不是被黑客获取您的系统和数据的所有方式所淹没。

Suddenly, as I was thus closely watching his expression and prepared against the worst, I saw a change, a flash, a look of relief, upon his face.

突然，当我如此密切地注视着他的表情并做好最坏的打算时， 我看到他脸上的变化， 一闪而过，一种如释重负的表情。

She had told Anne to be sure and have tea ready at five o'clock, but now she must hurry to take off her second-best dress and prepare the meal herself against Matthew's return from plowing.

她已经告诉安妮一定要在五点准备好茶点，但现在她必须赶快脱掉她第二好的衣服，自己准备饭菜，以防马修耕​​种回来。

But he, being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened the day following: for the southern wind, called the southern monsoon, began to set in.

但他是一位在这些海域航行经验丰富的人，他吩咐我们所有人做好准备，以防风暴，风暴在第二天发生了：因为被称为南方季风的南风开始袭来。

And there is one thing more preparing against him, which must be worse than all—his mother has determined, with a very natural kind of spirit, to settle that estate upon Robert immediately, which might have been Edward's, on proper conditions.

而且还有一件比所有事情都更糟糕的事情正在对他不利——他的母亲已经下定决心，以非常自然的精神，立即将那笔本来可能是爱德华的财产在适当的条件下转让给罗伯特。