| 单词 | succeed |
| 释义 | suc·ceed intransitive verb 1. a. < upon the death of his father he succeeded to a considerable fortune and to his father's position as rector — J.D.Wade > specifically < upon the death of the president the vice-president would succeed > < an instructor in biology … before succeeding to the chairmanship of the department of biology — Current Biography > b. < one idea would succeed to another with a rush — Osbert Sitwell > < slate has succeeded to thatch, and brick to timber — T.B.Macaulay > < the succeeding fifteen years … were uneventful — J.C.Fitzpatrick > 2. a. < the formula and ingredients that finally succeeded remain the top company secrets — Monsanto Magazine > b. < succeeded in regaining the offensive after a smashing defeat — Reporter > < mental abilities high enough to enable them to succeed in college — Clearing House > c. < will produce high quality grapes for wine on gravels where hardly any other crop will succeed — G.G.Weigend > < succeeds with our public — E.R.Bentley > 3. obsolete < whether the manner of their operation would succeed contrary — Richard Waller > 4. obsolete < will you to the cooler cave succeed — John Dryden > 5. obsolete < a ring … that downward hath succeeded in his house from son to son — Shakespeare > transitive verb 1. a. < simplicity of concept succeeds complexity of calculation — E.T.Bell > < the past is merely a series of messes, succeeding one another by discoverable laws — E.M.Forster > < the cathedral succeeded a frame building — American Guide Series: Arkansas > b. < succeeded her father as keeper of the lighthouse — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > 2. obsolete 3. obsolete < succeed thy father in manners as in shape — Shakespeare > 4. Synonyms: < succeed in passing a civil service examination > < succeed in business > < succeed in becoming president > < this government succeeded for seventy years — J.P.Boyd > prosper implies continued success < if a genuine democratic revolution should prosper — H.N.Brailsford > < education prospers by economy — R.W.Livingstone > < the oyster-fishing industry that prospered here in the middle-nineteenth century — American Guide Series: New York City > thrive adds to prosper the idea of vigorous growth < dictatorship thrives on poverty and war thrives on dictatorship — New Republic > < the era in which most American firms were born and thrived — C.F.Robinson > < the lumber industry throve during the boom days by meeting the needs of rush building — American Guide Series: Texas > flourish suggests a thriving or prospering, especially during a period when the thing is at the peak of its development or productivity < if physics and chemistry and biology have flourished, morals, religion, and aesthetics have withered — J.W.Krutch > < three expensive but flourishing weeklies devoted to absolutely nothing but the life of the rich and the titled — Aldous Huxley > < the demagogue flourishes most luxuriantly where negligence is flagrant and the abuse of power is arrogant — A.W.Long > Synonym: see in addition follow. |
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