成败 (chéng bài) — success or failure; the outcome (win or lose)
Definition
A fixed pair meaning 'success or failure' as a single outcome — used to talk about a result as a whole, not the two sides separately.
noun
success or failurethe outcome (win or lose)
Examples
- 成败。Shì qing de chéng bài qǔ jué yú wǒ men xiàn zài de nǔ lì.The success or failure of the matter depends on our current efforts.
- 成败，。Bù guǎn chéng bài, wǒ men dōu yīng gāi jiān chí dào dǐ.Regardless of success or failure, we should persist to the end.
- 成败。Zhè cì bǐ sài de chéng bài duì tā lái shuō fēi cháng zhòng yào.The outcome of this competition is very important to him.
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