Definition

1. Verb:
   • To harvest: The primary meaning of "gặt hái" is to cut and gather a mature crop, especially grain, from a field.
   • To reap / to obtain: Figuratively, "gặt hái" means to receive or obtain something as a result of one's efforts, actions, or behavior, such as success, results, or consequences.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Nông dân đang gặt hái lúa trên cánh đồng. (Farmers are harvesting rice in the field.)
  • Sau nhiều năm học tập chăm chỉ, cô ấy đã gặt hái được nhiều thành công. (After many years of hard study, she has reaped much success.)
  • Hành động của anh ta chắc chắn sẽ gặt hái hậu quả. (His actions will surely reap consequences.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is most powerfully used in its figurative sense to describe the outcomes of long-term effort, whether positive (rewards, achievements) or negative (consequences, failures).
• It often implies a process where the result is a direct and deserved product of prior actions.

Variants and Related Words

• Gặt (v): to harvest, to reap. This is the core component of "gặt hái," often used interchangeably for the literal action.
  • Họ gặt lúa vào mùa thu. (They harvest rice in the autumn.)

Synonyms

• Harvest: to gather a crop.
• Reap: to cut and collect a crop; to receive a consequence or reward.
• Obtain: to get or acquire something.
• Achieve: to successfully bring about or reach a desired objective.

Related Idioms

• Gặt hái thành quả: to reap the fruits/results.

  • Nhóm nghiên cứu cuối cùng đã gặt hái thành quả sau một thập kỷ. (The research team finally reaped the fruits after a decade.)

• Gieo gì gặt nấy / Gieo nhân nào gặt quả nấy: You reap what you sow.

  • Anh ấy lười biếng và giờ phải gặt hái thất bại; đúng là gieo gì gặt nấy. (He was lazy and now has to reap failure; it's true that you reap what you sow.)

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