Thrive 一词源自古北欧语thrīfa（抓住），后经古北欧语thrīfask进入英语，即用来表示儿童、动物、植物等“茁壮成长、茂盛生长”，也就是良好或旺盛地生长或发育，

比如：

These animals are very hard to domesticate. They rarely thrive in captivity.这些动物很难驯化。它们圈养起来很少会肥壮。

His business thrived in the years before the war. He soon amassed a huge fortune from bootlegging.从这个概念出发，常用 thrive 引申指市场、社区、商业、产业等“繁荣、蓬勃发展、兴旺发达”，常意味着在上下文语境中给定的条件或情况下取得显著的成功，比如：战前那些年，他的生意很兴隆。他很快就靠贩私积累了一大笔财富。

Her late lamented husband was the sort of person who thrived on hard work.因而 thrive on sth 这个短语动词还进一步用来表示“以某事为乐、因某事而有成”，尤指对某个他人不喜欢的事情或他人觉得困难的局面，可以享受其中或者出色应对，比如：她那令人怀念的已故丈夫是那种苦干有成的人。

Going forward, China will be a country that has great expectations of its younger generation. A nation will prosper only when its young people thrive. For China to develop further, our young people must step forward and take on their responsibilities.权威用例明天的中国，希望寄予青年。青年兴则国家兴，中国发展要靠广大青年挺膺担当。

出自习主席2023年新年贺词（双语全文）

prosper: flourish physically; grow strong and healthy burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish flourish: (of a person, animal, or other living organism) grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment同近义词