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merit / achievement / result / service / accomplishment
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功 [gōng]
名词
【本义】: 功绩,功业; 功劳
【造字法】: 会意。从力,工声。“工”亦兼表字义,表示用力从事工作。
1. 劳绩,成绩,与“过”相对:
- meritorious service; exploit; achievement; heroic achievement
- 功勋 (meritorious service or achievement)
- 功绩 (achievement)
- 论功行赏 (rewarding based on achievements)
- 徒劳无功 (to work in vain)
- 功德无量 (boundless merit)
2. 成就,成效:
- achievement; result
- 成功 (success)
- 功能 (function)
- 功亏一篑 (to lose all effort for a small mistake)
- 事半功倍 (to achieve twice the result with half the effort)
- 急功近利 (eager for quick results and immediate benefits)
3. 物理学上指用力使物体移动的工作,等于力乘移动的距离:
- work in physics; equal to force multiplied by distance
- 功率 (work rate)
4. 本领,能耐:
- skill; ability
- 功夫 (skill in activities or arts)
- 技能 (technique and skill)
- 功到自然成 (natural success with effort)
5. 功德; 恩德:
- merit; kindness
6. 通“工”:
- often interchangeable with work
7. 事情; 工作:
- work; task
8. 土木营造之事:
- works of architecture
9. 工程和劳动人力:
- engineering project; labor force
文引:
1. 《说文》: 功,以劳定国也。 (功 is determined by labor in establishing a country.)
2. 《周礼·司勋》: 国功曰功。 (National achievements are called 功.)
3. 《史记·项羽本纪》: 欲诛有功之人,此亡秦之续耳。 (To eliminate those who have merit; this is the downfall of Qin.)
4. 《荀子·劝学》: 驽马十驾,功在不舍。 (Even a slow horse can achieve if it does not give up.)
5. 《战国策·赵策》: 位尊而无功,奉厚而无劳,而挟重器多也。 (High position without merit; double pay without effort; holds many heavy instruments.)
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)
perform a meritorious service to atone for one's crimes / atone for one's crimes by a good deed / perform merits to atone for one's misdeeds / repent one's evil ways and prove it by one's deeds
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