词汇精选：succeed的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

v.

成功，办妥；获得成效(+in) [I]

例句：

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

初试不成功，努力勿懈怠。

例句：

He was utterly ruthless in his determination to succeed.

他下定决心争取成功。

继任；继承(+to) [I]

例句：

The millionaire's eldest son will succeed to his estate.

这百万富翁的长子将继承他的产业。

发迹；兴旺(+in) [I]

例句：

His firm will certainly grow and succeed.

他的公司一定会兴旺发达起来。

接着发生；接连(+to) [I]

例句：

Year succeeds to year.

年复一年。

接替；继承 [T]

例句：

He has been widely tipped as the President's successor to succeed the President.

很多人认为他将继任总统。

例句：

The son of a mandarin has no prescriptive right to succeed his father.

高级官员的儿子没有法定的权力继承他的父亲。

继...之后；接续 [T]

例句：

The board picked the finance director to succeed the retiring general manager.

董事会选择财务主管接替总经理的位置。

二、词义辨析：

continue,resume,succeed,go on

这些动词或短语动词均有“继续”之意。continue普通用词。或指持续而不停止，或有一段中断后又继续下去。resume指中断后的继续。succeed侧重指有规律地连续。go on通俗用词，多用于口语中。go on+-ing表暂停后继续做原事，即后继续的内容与原来的内容相同。go on+不定式指做完某事后，接着做不同的另一件事。

三、参考例句：

May you succeed!

祝你成功！

One cannot succeed without perseverance.

人无毅力不能成功。

He will succeed to the throne.

他将继承王位。

She is ambitious to succeed in business.

她立志要事业有成。

They succeed in climbing the mountain.

他们成功地登上了山。

Some people succeed and others fail.

有人成功有人失败。

Did he succeed in (passing) the examination?

他考试及格了吗？

The millionaire's eldest son will succeed to his estate.

这百万富翁的长子将继承他的产业。

Hard graft is the only way to succeed in business.

艰苦奋斗是在事业上成功的唯一途径。

She was filled with the aspiration to succeed in life.

她渴望有所成就。