| 单词 | success story |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuccess story success story n. colloquial (originally U.S.) (a) an account of a success; (b) an instance of a successful venture, an achievement, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful success1667 good thing1764 go1780 out1843 winner1913 success story1925 socko1937 gangbuster1946 bomb1954 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story with specific subject human story1753 family history1780 snake story1826 birth story1837 creation story1860 nostos1910 success story1925 microhistory1969 plutography1985 1925 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Feb. 28/2 (heading) A great success story. 1938 Time 14 Nov. 84/2 Last year, when the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that physicians might send contraceptives by mail, her career became a ‘success story’. 1954 W. K. Hancock Country & Calling vii. 203 Departments would naturally prefer to get ‘a good press’, whereas we were bound by our instructions to write critical history, not ‘a success story’. 1973 Nature 9 Nov. 58/1 The study of X-ray sources is one of the great success stories of present-day astrophysics. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 755/2 A comparative success story is the inundation of the ancient city of Nagarjunakonda to make way for a great hydro-electric project. < as lemmas |
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