from without and within

Given that China wasn't too long ago an isolated, impoverished backwater, vulnerable to predation from without and collapse from within, becoming the second most important pillar of the international system would scarcely constitute a 'loss.'

鉴于中国在不久前还是一个受孤立的贫穷落后的国家、易于遭到外部掠夺并容易从内部分崩离析，成为国际体系的第二大支柱肯定算不上失败。

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolution, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsion within.

他在解散众议院之后，又长期拒绝另选他人，于是这项不可剥夺的立法权便归由普通人民来行使，致使在这其间各州仍处于外敌入侵和内部骚乱的种种危险之中。

But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within.

但在今天，该委员会却遭到了评选委员会内外的猛烈批评。

The enemy is caught between two fires , from within and without.

敌人内外交困.

Working in collusion , one from within and the other from without , they created pandemonium.

他们里应外合, 把时局搞得乌烟瘴气.

They were determined to make that new world strong and free, to overcome its hazards and its hardships, to conquer the enemies that threatened from without and within.

他们决心建设一个强大、自由的新世界，克服它的艰难险阻，战胜里里外外威胁他们的敌人。