Predecessor
['priːdɪsesə] or ['prɛdəsɛsɚ]
解释:
(n.) One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
手打:西格蒙德
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Precursor (in any office or position), forerunner.[2]. Ancestor, forefather, progenitor.
乔整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Ancestor, forerunner, elder
ANT:Posterity, junior, successor
编辑:莎蒂
解释:
n. one who has been before another in any office.—v.t. Predecess′ (rare) to precede.—adj. Predeces′sive.
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例句:
- In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Before its birth generation after generation of the human family lived and died, and each was but little wiser, and but little better than its predecessor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- One must not think of a nomadic stage as a predecessor of a settled stage in human affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- This Helena will be an apple of discord, as was her predecessor of Troy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The name of Professor Dingo, my immediate predecessor, is one of European reputation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Each occasion surpassed its predecessor in the beauty of construction of the machines displayed and efficiency of their work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Kepler's genius was complementary to that of his predecessor. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It was a much more stately and far less successful and enthusiastic expedition than its predecessor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This was following up the work of his great predecessor Diocletian. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Its predecessor, the Median Empire, had endured for half a century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So, here was another earthquake of which I became the sport, before I had recovered from the shock of its predecessor! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They have succeeded to the organisation which their predecessors established in this country. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Each new generation would simply have repeated its predecessors' existence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Bell took up immediately and energetically the idea that his two predecessors had dropped--and reached the goal. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He was no early convert as his two predecessors had been; he had joined the Prophet for reasons of policy in fair give and take. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He may have learnt this custom from his Iberian neighbours and predecessors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But who amongst us is optimistic enough to hope that the men who sit in the mighty positions are going to make a better show of themselves than their predecessors did over the trust problem? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- This time diagram again is on a larger scale than its predecessors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At length, just before my departure, he told me he had, on better consideration, concluded not to mix his accounts with those of his predecessors. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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