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meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)

power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

see 下工夫[xia4 gong1 fu5]

glorious achievement (idiom)

half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results / a stitch in time saves nine

brilliant (exploit) / meritorious (achievement)

to act (in opera) / stage business

success at one go / to succeed at the first attempt

to practice (work skills)

optical power

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

twice the effort for half the result