Succeed

[sək'siːd] or [sək'sid]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) be the successor (of); 'Carter followed Ford'; 'Will Charles succeed to the throne?'.

(verb.) attain success or reach a desired goal; 'The enterprise succeeded'; 'We succeeded in getting tickets to the show'; 'she struggled to overcome her handicap and won'.

手打:西格蒙德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.

(v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.

(v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

(v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.

(v. i.) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.

(v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

(v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

(v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.

(v. i.) To go under cover.

錄入:奥维尔

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Follow, come after, be subsequent to.[2]. Take the place of, assume the office of.

v. n. [1]. Follow, ensue, come afterwards, come subsequently.[2]. Prosper, flourish, prevail, thrive, hit, make a hit, come on, be successful, meet with success, go on well, go on swimmingly, have a run of luck, hit the right nail on the head, turn up trumps, have the game in one's hands.

校對:朱莉娅

解釋/意思:

v.t. to come after to follow up or in order: to follow: to take the place of.—v.i. to follow in order: to take the place of: to obtain one's wish or accomplish what is attempted: to end with advantage.—adjs. Succeed′able capable of success; Succeed′ant (her.) following one another.—ns. Succeed′er one who succeeds: a successor; Success′ act of succeeding or state of having succeeded: the prosperous termination of anything attempted: one who or that which succeeds a successful person or affair.—adj. Success′ful resulting in success: having the desired effect or termination: prosperous.—adv. Success′fully.—ns. Success′fulness state of being successful: success; Succes′sion act of succeeding or following after: series of persons or things following each other in time or place: series of descendants: race: (agri.) rotation as of crops: right to take possession: in Roman and Scots law the taking of property by one person in place of another.—adj. Succes′sional existing in a regular succession or in order.—adv. Succes′sionally.—n. Succes′sionist one who regards only that priesthood as valid which can be traced in a direct line of succession from the apostles.—adj. Succes′sive following in succession or in order.—adv. Succes′sively.—n. Succes′siveness.—adj. Success′less without success: unprosperous.—ns. Succes′sor one who succeeds or comes after: one who takes the place of another; Succes′sorship.—adj. Succes′sory.—Succession duty a tax imposed on any succession to property varying with the degree of relationship.—Apostolical succession (see Apostle).

整理:辛克莱