he only succeeded in making it worse

1) (to manage to do what one is trying to do; to achieve one's aim or purpose: He succeeded in persuading her to do it; He's happy to have succeeded in his chosen career; She tried three times to pass her driving-test, and at last succeeded; Our new teaching methods seem to be succeeding.) conseguir; triunfar, tener éxito (en)

2) (to follow next in order, and take the place of someone or something else: He succeeded his father as manager of the firm / as king; The cold summer was succeeded by a stormy autumn; If the duke has no children, who will succeed to (= inherit) his property?) suceder; sucederse

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- success

succeed vb

1. tener éxito / triunfar

2. conseguir / lograr

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intransitive verb

1 (be successful - person) tener éxito, triunfar; (- plan, marriage) salir bien; (- strike) surtir efecto, dar resultado

2 (manage) lograr, conseguir

■ she aimed to swim a mile and succeeded se propuso nadar una milla y lo consiguió

■ at least we succeeded in raising public awareness al menos conseguimos sensibilizar a los ciudadanos

3 (throne) subir (to, a); (title) heredar (to, -)

transitive verb

1 (take place of) suceder a

2 formal use (follow after) suceder a

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if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again el que la sigue la consigue

to succeed in life triunfar en la vida

succeed [sək'si:d] vt

follow: suceder a

succeed vi

: tener éxito (dícese de las personas), dar resultado (dícese de los planes, etc.)

she succeeded in finishing: logró terminar

• acertar v.

• salir bien v.

• suceder v.

• suceder a una persona v.

• tener éxito v.

• topar v.

1) ( have success) \<\<plan\>\> dar* resultado, surtir efecto; \<\<person\>\>

2)

vt suceder

1. VI

1) [person]

a) (in business, career) tener éxito, triunfar (in en)

b) (in task, aim)

- if at first you don't succeed, try, try again

c) (=take over)

2) [thing]

a) (=work) [plan, strategy, experiment] dar resultado, salir bien

b) (=do well) [business] prosperar; [film] tener éxito

- nothing succeeds like success

VT (=follow) suceder a

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1) ( have success) \<\<plan\>\> dar* resultado, surtir efecto; \<\<person\>\>

2)

vt suceder

1) (achieve aim) Erfolg haben

2) (come next) die Nachfolge antreten

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1) (to manage to do what one is trying to do; to achieve one's aim or purpose: He succeeded in persuading her to do it; He's happy to have succeeded in his chosen career; She tried three times to pass her driving-test, and at last succeeded; Our new teaching methods seem to be succeeding.) Erfolg haben

2) (to follow next in order, and take the place of someone or something else: He succeeded his father as manager of the firm / as king; The cold summer was succeeded by a stormy autumn; If the duke has no children, who will succeed to (= inherit) his property?) nachfolgen

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I. vi

1. (achieve purpose) Erfolg haben, erfolgreich sein

▪ to \succeed in sth mit etw dat Erfolg haben

they \succeeded in their attempt ihr Versuch war ein Erfolg

▪ to \succeed in doing sth etw mit Erfolg tun

they will only \succeed in making things worse damit erreichen sie nur, dass alles noch schlimmer wird

with a single remark you've \succeeded in offending everyone ( iron) mit einer einzigen Bemerkung hast du es geschafft, alle vor den Kopf zu stoßen

to \succeed in business geschäftlich erfolgreich sein

to \succeed whatever the circumstances unter allen Umständen Erfolg haben

the plan \succeeded der Plan ist gelungen

2. (follow) nachfolgen, die Nachfolge antreten, Nachfolger/in werden

▪ to \succeed to sth die Nachfolge in etw dat antreten

to \succeed to an office die Nachfolge in einem Amt antreten

to \succeed to the throne die Thronfolge antreten

to \succeed to [great] wealth [große] Reichtümer erben

▶ if at first you don't \succeed, try, try again ( prov) wirf die Flinte nicht gleich ins Korn fam

II. vt

▪ to \succeed sb [as sth] jds Nachfolge [als etw] antreten

to \succeed sb in office jds Amt übernehmen, jdm im Amt nachfolgen

to \succeed sb in a post jds Stelle antreten

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1. vi

1) (= be successful person) erfolgreich sein, Erfolg haben; (plan etc) gelingen, erfolgreich sein

2)

2. vt

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succeed [səkˈsiːd]

A v/i

1. glücken, erfolgreich sein oder verlaufen, gelingen, Erfolg haben (Sache):

nothing succeeds like success (Sprichwort) nichts ist so erfolgreich wie der Erfolg

2. Erfolg haben, erfolgreich sein, sein Ziel erreichen (Person) (as als; in mit etwas; with bei jemandem):

he succeeded in doing sth es gelang ihm, etwas zu tun;

succeed in action JUR obsiegen;

he succeeded very badly es gelang ihm sehr schlecht

3. (to)

a) Nachfolger werden (in einem Amt etc)

b) erben (akk):

succeed to the throne auf dem Thron folgen;

succeed to sb’s rights in jemandes Rechte eintreten

4. (to) (unmittelbar) folgen (dat oder auf akk), nachfolgen (dat)

B v/t (nach)folgen (dat), folgen (dat oder auf akk), jemandes (Amts- oder Rechts)Nachfolger(in) werden, jemanden beerben:

succeed sb in office jemandes Amt übernehmen

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1) (achieve aim) Erfolg haben

2) (come next) die Nachfolge antreten

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Erfolg haben ausdr.

folgen v.

gelingen v.

glücken v.

suc·ceed [səkʼsi:d] vi

1) ( achieve purpose) Erfolg haben, erfolgreich sein;

to \succeed in sth mit etw dat Erfolg haben;

they \succeeded in their attempt ihr Versuch war ein Erfolg;

to \succeed in doing sth etw mit Erfolg tun;

they will only \succeed in making things worse damit erreichen sie nur, dass alles noch schlimmer wird;

with a single remark you've \succeeded in offending everyone ( iron) mit einer einzigen Bemerkung hast du es geschafft, alle vor den Kopf zu stoßen;

to \succeed in business geschäftlich erfolgreich sein;

to \succeed whatever the circumstances unter allen Umständen Erfolg haben;

the plan \succeeded der Plan ist gelungen

2) ( follow) nachfolgen, die Nachfolge antreten, Nachfolger/in werden;

to \succeed to sth die Nachfolge in etw dat antreten;

to \succeed to an office die Nachfolge in einem Amt antreten;

to \succeed to the throne die Thronfolge antreten;

to \succeed to [great] wealth [große] Reichtümer erben

if at first you don't \succeed, try, try again (you don't \succeed, try, try again) wirf die Flinte nicht gleich ins Korn ( fam) vt

to \succeed sb [as sth] jds Nachfolge [als etw] antreten;

to \succeed sb in office jds Amt übernehmen, jdm im Amt nachfolgen;

to \succeed sb in a post jds Stelle antreten

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Mining and extraction technology, Weapons and armour

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The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.

It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.

In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.

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