Giles:
Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:
Goldwater:
A side by side comparison of the generals will enable us to understand their respective situations.
Traditional Chinese
故校之以計，而索其情。
Simplified Chinese
Pin Yin
故校之以計，而索其情。
Therefore, comparison by calculation,
understand their situations.
understand their situations.
| 故 | 校 | 之 | 以 | 計， |
| Therefore, | comparison | by | calculation, |
| 而 | 索 | 其 | 情。 |
| understand | their | situations. |
Therefore, comparison by calculation, (enables us to) understand their situations.
Comparison (of the generals) by calculation (enables us to) understand their (respective) situations.
We can calculate based on a side by side comparison of the generals, which will enable us to understand their respective situations.
A side by side comparison of the generals will enable us to understand their respective situations.