- 1接下來的、隨後的（如 the succeeding years 之後的那幾年）。這裡不是「成功」的意思——同一個字，形容詞用法只表示「後續的」，看它有沒有放在名詞前面來判斷。
This is *succeeding* meaning "coming after" — not the everyday one meaning "doing well". It goes before a plural noun and points forward in time from some moment already mentioned: "the succeeding weeks", "succeeding generations", "in succeeding chapters". Note that it needs that earlier moment. You cannot start a story with "in succeeding years"; the reader must already know *after what*.
It is formal and rather — history writing, legal documents, academic articles. In speech people say "the weeks that followed" or "the following weeks", and honestly *following* has almost taken this job over completely.
The trap is that the same spelling is the ordinary verb: "She is succeeding in business" (doing well), "He succeeded his father as king" (took the position after). All three uses come from one root idea — one thing coming along behind another — but they feel like different words now, and only the position in the sentence tells you which you have. Before a noun, it means "following". After *be*, it means "doing well".
From the word’s history
From succeed + -ing; succeed is from Old French succeder, from Latin succedere 'to follow, take the place of'.
由 succeed 加 -ing；succeed 源自拉丁文「接續」。
組成succeed + -ing, used as an adjective. Latin sub- "under, close after" + cedere "to go" — "to go along right behind". The "be successful" meaning grew out of it later: things that go well are things that come out right in the end.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
succeedingadj/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/
- 1
Following, next in order.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
succeedingnoun/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/
- 1
success
- It is good for a man in the midst of prosperity to fear a Ruin, and in the midst of adversity to hope for better succeedings.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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