如愿以偿

rú yuàn yǐ cháng

to get what one wished for

Character by character

如rú
as

愿yuàn
wish

以yǐ
thereby

偿cháng
fulfil

努力了三年，他终于如愿以偿，考上了北大。

After three years’ hard work, he finally got into Peking University as he’d hoped.

Tone: positive (praise).

Often with 终于.

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