success是什麽意思

success

英 [sək'ses] 美 [sək'sɛs]

success 成功，成就

來自 succeed,達到目的，成功，-ss,過去分詞格。詞義由形容詞作名詞使用。

success (n.): 1530s, "result, outcome," from Latin successus "an advance, a coming up; a good result, happy outcome," noun use of past participle of succedere "come after" (see succeed). Meaning "accomplishment of desired end" (good success) first recorded 1580s. Meaning "a thing or person which succeeds," especially in public, is from 1882.
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That -- with the squalid interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease. [William James to H.G. Wells, Sept. 11, 1906]
Success story is attested from 1902. Among the French phrases reported by OED as in use in English late 19c. were succès d'estime "cordial reception given to a literary work out of respect rather than admiration" and succès de scandale "success (especially of a work of art) dependent upon its scandalous character."

1. Success is not guaranteed. It is not handed to you. Success is earned.: 成功無法保證，並非唾手可得。成功必須靠自己去爭取。

2. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill: 成功不是終點，失敗也並非末日，最重要的是繼續前進的勇氣。

3. Talent, hard work and sheer tenacity are all crucial to career success.: 事業要成功，才能、勤奮和頑強的意誌都至關重要。

4. Today's Security Council resolution will be a significant success for American diplomacy.: 今天的安理會決議對於美國外交而言是一次重大的成功。

5. The company was coasting on the enormous success of its early products.: 公司憑借早期產品的巨大成功而在市場上遙遙領先。