成事 chéngshì
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chéngshì
noun
a completed matter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '成事' 1; Mathews 1931 '成事', p. 48) -
chéngshì
noun
a past matter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '成事' 2) -
chéngshì
verb
to complete
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '成事' 3)
Contained in
- 既成事实(既成事實) fait accompli
- 因人成事 to get things done relying on others; with a little help from his friends
- 成事不说(成事不說) it is not useful to discuss things of the past
- 成事不足，败事有余(成事不足，敗事有餘) unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything; unable to do anything right
- 成事在天 success depends on the will of Heaven
- 谋事在人，成事在天(謀事在人，成事在天) planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven; Man proposes but God disposes.
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷108之三 禮志四之三 Volume 108c Treatise 4: Rituals 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 5
- 《趙世家》 House of Zhao Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 2
- 卷九 志第一 禮上 Volume 9 Treatises 1: Rituals 1 Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 2
- 卷五 Scroll 5 Discourses on Salt and Iron 鹽鐵論 — count: 2
- 卷二 西周 Chapter 2: Western Zhou Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2
- 《雜記下》 Miscellaneous Records II The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 2
- 第六十四回 Chapter 64 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 卷四百〇二 列傳第一百六十一 陳敏 張詔 畢再遇 安丙 楊巨源 李好義 Volume 402 Biographies 161: Chen Min, Zhang Zhao, Bi Zaiyu, An Bing, Yang Juyuan, Li Haoyi History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 卷六十三 李杜列傳 Volume 63: Biographies of Li, Du Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷六十七 黨錮列傳 Volume 67: Biographies of Partisan Prohibitions Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
Collocations
- 能成事 (能成事) 是謂巧能成事者也 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 6
- 不能成事 (不能成事) 必不能成事 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百〇二 列傳第一百六十一 陳敏 張詔 畢再遇 安丙 楊巨源 李好義 Volume 402 Biographies 161: Chen Min, Zhang Zhao, Bi Zaiyu, An Bing, Yang Juyuan, Li Haoyi — count: 5
- 哭成事 (哭成事) 卒哭成事而後 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 5
- 可以成事 (可以成事) 是故不同于和而可以成事者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十六 說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion — count: 4
- 芳成事 (芳成事) 見芳成事 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷19上 景穆十二王上 Volume 19a: Emperor Jingmu Twelve Princes 1 — count: 3
- 少成事 (少成事) 少成事 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 3
- 难成事 (難成事) 恐難成事 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷九十八 列傳第四十八: 魏知古 盧懷慎 源乾曜 李元纮 杜暹 韓休 裴耀卿 Volume 98 Biographies 48: Wei Zhigu, Lu Huaishen, Yuan Ganyao, Li Yuanhong, Du Xian, Han Xiu, Pei Yaoqing — count: 3
- 受成事 (受成事) 丞相諸大臣皆受成事 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 2
- 怜成事 (憐成事) 摽以因覆憐成事 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷34 列傳第26 趙善 元定 楊摽 裴寬 楊敷 Volume 34 Biographies 26: Zhao Shan; Yuan Ding; Yang Biao; Pei Kuan; Yang Fu — count: 2
- 成事之后 (成事之後) 待成事之後 — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 第四十一回 Chapter 41 — count: 2