做好事是不夠的,還必須做得很好。

It is not enough to do good; one must also do it well.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 做好 zuòhǎo
  1. to do a good job
  2. to finish; to complete
=2 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: , ,

=2
  1. alternative form of (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of (zì, “to stab”)
=3 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 shì variant of shì
4 不夠 gòu
  1. not enough
  2. insufficient
  3. inadequate
=5 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=6 Huán surname Huan
=6 hái
  1. still
  2. still in progress
  3. still more
  4. yet
  5. even more
  6. in addition
  7. fairly
  8. passably (good)
  9. as early as
  10. even
  11. also
  12. else
=6 huán
  1. to pay back
  2. to return
=6 xuán
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nimble; agile
  4. alternative form of (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  5. immediately
  6. nimble; agile
7 必須
  1. to have to
  2. must
  3. compulsory
  4. necessarily
8 做得 zuodè can do; to be worth doing
9 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=10 hǎo
  1. good
  2. appropriate; proper
  3. all right!
  4. (before a verb) easy to
  5. (before a verb) good to
  6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
  7. (verb complement indicating completion)
  8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
  9. (after a personal pronoun) hello
=10 hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to