Get twice the result with half the effort (pinyin: shü bà ngnggè i) is an idiom, which comes from Mencius and his disciple "Mencius Gongsun Chou" in the Warring States Period. Get twice the result with half the effort is to get twice the result with half the effort; It means doing things right, so get twice the result with half the effort. With praise; Generally, it is used as predicate, object and attribute in sentences.
The origin of the idiom: Mencius in the Warring States and his disciple "Mencius Gongsun Chou": "A country of thousands of riders; Doing benevolent government, the people enjoy it, and the solution is still hanging. People with semi-ancient stories will do twice as much, but that's the truth. " Later generations derived the idiom "get twice the result with half the effort" from this allusion.
Mencius said that the people suffered from tyrannical politics, and the State of Qi had 10,000 soldiers. If we could implement benevolent policies, we would get twice the result with half the effort. Idioms tell people to pay attention to methods. Blindness and recklessness may waste energy and have little effect. Find the right way to do it again, make use of favorable opportunities to make things easier to succeed and achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Use examples
Qing Li Garbo's "Officialdom in Appearance": "If I find this aunt and entrust her, I will get twice the result with half the effort."
Guo Moruo on annotation and translation movement and others: "This method can get twice the result with half the effort for beginners of foreign languages."
Ma Yifu's Law on Re-recording College Reading: "If you are distracted in reading, you can't enter if you know and want less, and you will work hard if you work hard and get less. Concentrated reading will get twice the result with half the effort.