gặt hái
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Definition
- 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.)
- như gặt (nói khái quát)