succeed: is antithesis to fail and is widely applicable to persons and things: ~ in her third try for public office.  成功指达成目标to attain the planned or desired result，如success(to succeed) in election/business/exam选举/生意/考试成功，如successful landing/marriage/completion of the work/experiment成功着陆/婚姻美满/完成工作/试验取得成功，可见成功不一定是拥有财富名声to gain wealth, respect, or fame


prosper: carries an implication of continued or long-continuing and usually increasing success:  ~ in business.     指经济市场等持续发展、活跃


thrive: adds the implication of vigorous growth often because of or in spite of specified conditions: plants that ~ in acid soil.    business is thriving生意兴隆a thriving economy经济繁荣a plant that thrives in desert一种能生长在沙漠的植物


flourish: implies a state of vigorous growth and expansion without signs of decadence or decay but also without any suggestion of how long this state will be maintained: attitudes that ~ed in the Middle Ages.     用法和prosper, thrive相同，另外还表示华丽辞藻、装饰性线条、挥舞details or decorations that are used in speech or writing，to wave如a speech full of rhetorical flourishes满篇华丽辞藻的演讲，来自拉丁词根FLOR=flower


succeed成功: 和失败相反, 通用于人或物, prosper繁荣: 持续增加的成功, thrive繁荣兴旺: 指茁壮成长，使用时常带上所处的环境状态，flourish也是繁荣: 成长扩张无衰败迹象（但持续多久不一定，和prosper有这点细微差别）。


记忆方法：1）首字母SPTF想成Fan Sheng Tai Ping繁盛太平<==国家治理很成功

          2）练习一下

           3）成功的意思是达到目的mean to attain or be attaining a desired end.首字母SPTF想成Fan Sheng Tai Ping繁盛太平<==国家治理很成功