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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

成事 [chéngshì]
  1. 1. accomplish something; succeed
    你这样做成不了事,只会误事。
    If you go at it this way you'll never succeed. Instead you'll make a mess of things.
  2. 2. [Literary] a thing that is past or finished

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

成事 [chéngshì]
  1. 1. 把事情办成
    谦虚谨慎,定能成事
    主观武断,成不了事

Examples

他这人成事不足败事有余,不能依靠。
He can never make but always break, you can't count on him.
谋事在人,成事在天。
不能成事,光坏事。
不进贡就办不成事的歪风必须刹住。
谋事不易,成事更难。
a working majority
足出成事的大多数;(议会票数等)足以通过的大多数

Word Decomposition


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