基本功
jī běn gōng
Pinyin

Definition

基本功
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jī běn gōng
  1. basic skills
  2. fundamentals

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

功夫
gōng fu
  1. 1 skill
  2. 2 art
  3. 3 kung fu
  4. 4 labor
  5. 5 effort
功能
gōng néng
  1. 1 function
  2. 2 capability
基本
jī běn
  1. 1 basic
  2. 2 fundamental
  3. 3 main
  4. 4 elementary
成功
Chéng gōng
  1. 1 Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tái dōng Xiàn], southeast Taiwan
日本
Rì běn
  1. 1 Japan

Idioms (20)

一本万利
yī běn wàn lì
  1. 1 small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
不成功便成仁
bù chéng gōng biàn chéng rén
  1. 1 to succeed or die trying (idiom)
不求有功，但求无过
bù qiú yǒu gōng , dàn qiú wú guò
  1. 1 lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a risk-averse approach
事半功倍
shì bàn gōng bèi
  1. 1 half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results
  2. 2 a stitch in time saves nine

Sample Sentences

不过话说回来，“书到用时方恨少”，如今在报社工作，我还是很感谢当年拼命阅读背诵打下的扎实基本功的。教育制度的改变并非一朝一夕，不过和其他制度一样，总会与时俱进的。
bùguò huàshuōhuílai ，“shū dào yòng shí fāng hèn shǎo ”，rújīn zài bàoshè gōngzuò ，wǒ háishì hěn gǎnxiè dāngnián pīnmìng yuèdú bèisòng dǎxià de zhāshi jīběngōng de 。jiāoyùzhìdù de gǎibiàn bìngfēi yīcháoyīxī ，bùguò hé qítā zhìdù yīyàng ，zǒng huì yǔshíjūjìn de 。
That said, it's only when you make use of your knowledge that you wish you'd learned more. Now I'm working for a newspaper, I'm really grateful for all that reading and learning off by heart I did back in the day to give myself a good basic knowledge. Changing the education system doesn't happen overnight, but rather, like other systems, it progresses over time.
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