{"path":"/entry/1024","title":"一鼓作气 / 一鼓作氣 (yī gǔ zuò qì) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"一鼓作气 / 一鼓作氣 (yī gǔ zuò qì): in a spurt of energy. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":1024,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["一鼓作气"],"TRADITIONAL":["一鼓作氣"]}},"phonetic":"yī gǔ zuò qì","phoneticKey":"yi1 gu3 zuo4 qi4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"in a spurt of energy","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":35109,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"yì gǔ zuò qì"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Zuo Zhuan, regrading Cao Gui's (曹劌) tactics in the Battle of Changshao (《左傳·莊公十年》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"公与之乘。战于长勺。公将鼓之。刿曰：『未可。』齐人三鼓，刿曰：『可矣。』齐师败绩。……既克，公问其故。对曰：『夫战，勇气也，一鼓作气，再而衰，三而竭。彼竭我盈，故克之。……","traditional":"公與之乘。戰於長勺。公將鼓之。劌曰：『未可。』齊人三鼓，劌曰：『可矣。』齊師敗績。……既克，公問其故。對曰：『夫戰，勇氣也，一鼓作氣，再而衰，三而竭。彼竭我盈，故克之。……"},"phonetic":"Gōng yǔ zhī chéng. Zhàn yú Chángsháo. Gōng jiāng gǔ zhī. Guì yuē: ‘Wèikě.’ Qí rén sān gǔ, Guì yuē: ‘Kě yǐ.’ Qí shī bàijì....... Jì kè, Gōng wèn qí gù. Duì yuē: ‘Fú zhàn, yǒngqì yě, yīgǔ zuò qì, zài ér shuāi, sān ér jié. Bǐ jié wǒ yíng, gù kè zhī.......","english":"The duke took him with him in his chariot. The battle was fought in Changshao. The duke was about to order the drums to beat an advance, when Gui said, \"Not yet;\" and after the men of Qi had advanced three times with their drums beating, he said, \"Now is the time.\" The army of Qi received a severe defeat; … When the victoiy had been secured, the duke asked Gui the reasons of what he had done. \"In fighting,\" was the reply, \"all depends on the courageous spirit. When the drums first beat, that excites the spirit. A second advance occasions a diminution of the spirit; and with a third, it is exhausted. With our spirit at the highest pitch we fell on them with their spirit exhausted; and so we conquered them. …","ref":"Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"},{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}