成事

1. accomplish sth.; 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. 书 a thing that is past or finished

~不足, 败事有余 unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything; never able to achieve, always able to ruin; never make, but always mar