一方有難，八方支援
一方有难，八方支援
When someone in the society faced difficulties, other people would support them.
名詞
某個地方或區域 a place or an area
Definitions (Wiktionary)
noun
one side; one aspect; one party
noun
one side
一方有難，八方支援。
一方有难，八方支援。
yī fāng yǒu nán ， bā fāng zhī yuán ． When disaster strikes, assistance comes from all sides.
noun
one area; one region
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
但我将总是会向你们坦陈我们所面临的挑战。我会听取你们的意见，尤其是存在不同意见的时候。最重要的是，我会请求你们参与重建这个国家，以美国221年来从未改变的唯一方式-一砖一瓦、同心协力。
但我將總是會向你們坦陳我們所面臨的挑戰。我會聽取你們的意見，尤其是存在不同意見的時候。最重要的是，我會請求你們參與重建這個國家，以美國221年來從未改變的唯一方式-一磚一瓦、同心協力。
dàn wǒ jiāng zǒng shì huì xiàng nǐ men tǎn chén wǒ men suǒ miàn lín de tiǎo zhàn 。 wǒ huì tīng qǔ nǐ men de yì jiàn ， yóu qí shì cún zài bù tóng yì jiàn de shí hou 。 zuì zhòng yào de shì ， wǒ huì qǐng qiú nǐ men cān yù chóng jiàn zhè ge guó jiā ， yǐ měi guó 221 nián lái cóng wèi gǎi biàn de wéi yī fāng shì - yī zhuān yī wǎ 、 tóng xīn xié lì 。
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years; block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
Mandarin
我打电话给你，一方面是想请你吃饭，另一方面是想告诉你我儿子要结婚了。
我打電話給你，一方面是想請你吃飯，另一方面是想告訴你我兒子要結婚了。
wǒ dǎ diàn huà gěi nǐ ， yī fāng miàn shì xiǎng qǐng nǐ chī fàn ， lìng yī fāng miàn shì xiǎng gào sù nǐ wǒ ér zi yào jié hūn le 。
On the one hand I called you to invite you to dinner, on the other to tell you my son is getting married.
Mandarin
那是我们在枪林弹雨中自保的唯一方法。
那是我們在槍林彈雨中自保的唯一方法。
nà shi wǒ men zài qiāng lín dàn yǔ zhōng zì bǎo de wéi yī fāng fǎ 。
That was the only way we could defend ourselves against all this terrible shooting.
When disaster strikes, assistance comes from all sides.
Mandarin
他们一方面授予你广泛的权力——或者至少他们说要这样做，一方面又在你工作中最重要而且你又最为关注的领域鸡蛋里挑骨头，令你无所适从。
他們一方面授予你廣泛的權力——或者至少他們説要這樣做，一方面又在你工作中最重要而且你又最為關注的領域雞蛋裏挑骨頭，令你無所適從。
tā men yī fāng miàn shòu yǔ nǐ guǎng fàn de quán lì — huò zhě zhì shào tā men shuō yào zhè yàng zuò ， yī fāng miàn yòu zài nǐ gōng zuò zhōng zuì zhòng yào ér qiě nǐ yòu zuì wéi guān zhù de lǐng yù jī dàn li tiǎo gǔ tou ， lìng nǐ wú suǒ shì cóng ．
On the one hand, they grant you extensive power—or at least they say that they want to do that; on the other hand, they nitpick at the area most important in your work, the one that you pay most attention to, causing you to be at a loss of what to do.
A group of friends went for an outing and I was leading them through the narrow crisscrossing footpaths between fields. No one would have expected that there would be several oxen in our path and that the path wasn't big enough for both man and ox: in the end, one side would be forced to make way for the other.