Precursor

例句:

• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A difficult child was Frederick II for Mother Church, and he was only the precursor of many such difficult children. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor to extinction. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This may be considered as the precursor of the five-needle telegraph, first patented by Professor Wheatstone in 1837. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Watt was the proper precursor of the nineteenth century inventions, as in him were combined the power and attainments of a great scientist and the genius of a great mechanic. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He was the precursor of that large and various school of collectivist thinkers in the nineteenth century who are lumped together as Socialists. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The organization of this great empire seems to have been on a much higher level of efficiency than any of its precursors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Occam, Roger Bacon, these are the early precursors of a great movement in Europe away from Realism towards reality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The incense sticks of the Chinese, the combustion of which proceeded so slowly and regularly as to render them available for time measures, were the precursors of the graduated candles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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