核心畫面

You can picture success as the moment a thing you aimed at actually comes off — the target is hit, the plan lands. Everything else is that same hitting-the-mark seen from different angles: a popular product, a person who has risen high, a business that thrives, or a story held up as the example.

可以想成:你瞄準的那件事真的辦成了的那一刻——目標命中、計畫落地。其他用法都是同一個「打中靶心」換個角度看:暢銷的東更多收起可以想成:你瞄準的那件事真的辦成了的那一刻——目標命中、計畫落地。其他用法都是同一個「打中靶心」換個角度看:暢銷的東西、爬到高位的人、賺錢興旺的生意,或被拿來當範例的故事。

Three branches

達成所求

這族是 success 的核心動作本身:想做到的、計畫好的,真的做到了。

achieving what you wanted · noun · B1

When you manage to do or get what you wanted or planned.

成功

成功的人事物

把「辦成了」這份結果落到一個具體對象上——它本身就成了一個 success:一樣熱賣的東西、一個出人頭地的人、一門賺錢的生意。

something popular · noun · B1

Something that a lot of people like, buy, or come to see.

成功(受歡迎的事物)

成功的範例

把一個漂亮的成功收進固定說法 success story,當作可以拿出來說、拿來當榜樣的例子。

success story · noun · B1

In the phrase 'success story', a person or thing that has done very well.

成功的例子(success story)

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

Successname

  • 1

    A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

  • 2

    A town in Clay County, Arkansas.

  • 3

    A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.

  • 4

    An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.

  • 5

    An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.

  • 6

    An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.

  • 7

    A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

  • 8

    A surname.

successnoun/səkˈsɛs/

  • 1

    The achievement of one's aim or goal.

    • His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
    • a glowing success
  • 2

    businessFinancial profitability.

    • Don't let success go to your head.
    • Instead Nokia decided better to stick with what they knew worked - good, solid, reliable mobile phones of the kind that had brought them success until then.
  • 3

    One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

    • Scholastically, he was a success.
    • The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
  • 4

    The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

    • She is country music's most recent success.
  • 5

    obsoleteSomething which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.

    • I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。