bear fruit

뜻

to produce good results after a lot of effort

많은 노력 끝에 좋은 결과를 내다.

예문

1. 1Years of hard work finally bore fruit when her first novel was published.
2. 2Our efforts to cut waste in the office are starting to bear fruit.
3. 3The school's new reading programme has borne fruit: exam results rose by twenty per cent.
4. 4Will all these late nights of practice ever bear fruit?
5. 5Months of talks between the two companies bore fruit last week with a big new deal.

문법

bear는 불규칙 동사다: bore, borne. 여기서 fruit에는 관사도 복수형도 붙이지 않는다. 주어는 보통 계획, 일이나 노력이다.