If you succeed, you achieve something that you have been aiming for, and if a plan or piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted.

She's been trying to pass her driving test for six years and she's finally succeeded. 六年来，她一直努力想通过驾照考试，终于得偿所愿。

You need to be pretty tough to succeed in the property world. 要想在房地产界出人头地，你必须要坚忍不拔。

The campaign has certainly succeeded in raising public awareness of the issue. 毫无疑问，这项活动成功地唤起了公众对这一问题的关注。

humorous Richard succeeded in offending (= managed unintentionally to offend) just about everybody in the room! 理查德成功地把房间里所有的人都得罪了！

to take an official job or position after someone else

He succeeded his father as editor of the paper. 他接替父亲成为了报纸的主编。

When the Queen dies, her eldest son will succeed to the throne. 女王去世后，将由其长子继承王位。

to come after another person or thing in time

In the weeks that succeeded, five more patients showed similar symptoms. 接下来的几周里，又有5名患者出现了类似的症状。

Almost from its beginnings, New York has produced succeeding generations of intellectuals. 几乎是从其存在之日开始，纽约就孕育了一代又一代的知识分子。

if at first you don't succeed, try, try againidiom saying 一次不成，再试一次