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to succeed / success / successful; fruitful
HSK 3
function; capability
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
homework / assignment / task / classwork / lesson / study / CL: 門|门
HSK 3
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meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)
HSK 7-9
efficacy
HSK 7-9
contribution / meritorious service / credit
HSK 7-9
rate of work / power (output)
HSK 7-9
to render meritorious service (one the three imperishables 三不朽) / to make worthy contributions / to distinguish oneself
HSK 7-9
training in the basic skills / knowledge of the fundamentals
HSK 7-9
merit / efficacy / competence / skill / power
HSK 7-9
diligent / industrious (in one's studies) / to study hard / to make great effort
HSK 7-9
meritorious official / person who renders exceptional service; hero / (fig.) sth that plays a vital role
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
HSK 7-9
multifunctional / multifunction
HSK 7-9
Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
amazing powers / miraculous skill
scholarly honor (in imperial exams) / rank / achievement / fame / glory
achievement / meritorious deed / contributions (for the good of society)
electric consumption / power wastage
utility
qigong, a traditional Chinese system of cultivating vital energy 氣|气 through coordinated breathing, movement and meditation
to do tai chi / to practice kung-fu (or other martial art) / to train (for dancing, acrobatics etc)
great merit / great service
function
outstanding military service
successfully accomplished (project or goal) / to be highly successful
to celebrate a heroic deed
to give credit / to give sb his due / attribution
feat / contribution / merits and achievements
to take the credit for sb's achievement
outstanding founding minister (title given to reward loyal general or vassal of new dynasty or state)
singing skill
to achieve or accomplish goals
Failure is the mother of success.
Wugong County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi
martial art / military accomplishments / (Peking opera) martial arts feats
(military) meritorious service
to win instant success (idiom)
half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results / a stitch in time saves nine
hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work
to act (in opera) / stage business
glorious achievement (idiom)
achievement / outstanding work / glorious deed
merits and demerits / contributions and errors
war exploits / (fig.) heroic contribution
to claim credit for oneself
to win success and recognition (idiom)
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
seeking instant benefit (idiom); shortsighted vision, looking only for fast return
to work to no avail (idiom)
no greater contribution has been made than this (idiom)
to sing sb's praises (mostly derogatory)
to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain
to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
hidden merits
achievements and virtue
to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs
no end of virtuous achievements (idiom); boundless beneficence
twice the effort for half the result
to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom)
brilliant (exploit); meritorious (achievement)
satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's laurels and despising others
to rejoice in grandiose deeds / to strive to achieve extraordinary things
to request recognition for sb's merits / to recommend sb for promotion or an award
to report a heroic deed / to mention sb in dispatches
to show off one's accomplishments (often derog.)
first class merit
to get undeserved rewards (idiom)
to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
to redeem oneself / to atone
to atone for one's crimes by meritorious acts
achievements and crimes
not to claim personal credit for achievement (idiom)
achievement
to evaluate the merit of sth
to take credit for sb else's achievements
multifunction meter (e.g. for gas and electricity supply)
sense of accomplishment
Wugong County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi
hyperthyroidism / abbr. to 甲亢
utilitarianism
effort will undoubtedly lead to success (idiom)
Mt Wugong in Jiangxi
ten years of practice for one minute on the stage (idiom)
success at one go / to succeed at the first attempt
to succeed or die trying (idiom)
lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom) / fig. to take a risk-averse approach
to practice (work skills)
optical power
one's contributions cannot go unnoticed (idiom)
decree
position and wealth (idiom); rank, fame and fortune
Chinese translation of "kung flu", a term used by US President Trump in 2020 to refer to COVID-19 as a "Chinese" disease
kung flu
very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
to fully achieve one's ambitions (idiom)
virtuous achievements come to their successful conclusion (idiom)

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