Succession
[sək'seʃ(ə)n] or [sək'sɛʃən]
解释:
(noun.) acquisition of property by descent or by will.
(noun.) the action of following in order; 'he played the trumps in sequence'.
(noun.) a group of people or things arranged or following in order; 'a succession of stalls offering soft drinks'; 'a succession of failures'.
(noun.) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established.
校对:弗恩--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
(n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
(n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
(n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
(n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
(n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
录入:希莉娅
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Sequence, consecution.[2]. Series, suite, progression, chain, concatenation.[3]. Lineage, race, line of descendants.[4]. (Mus.) Notes of melody (as distinguished from chords of harmony).
校对:马里恩
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Following, supervention, consecution, sequence, order, series, rotation,continuity, supply, suite
ANT:Precedence, anticipation, prevention, antecedence, irregularity, disorder,non-sequence, solution, failure, intermission, break, gap, inconsecutiveness
编辑:米考伯
例句:
- Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and West Point fell in quick succession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The bottle and jug were again produced, and he mixed a weak draught, and another, and drank both in quick succession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- This arose from the fact that, on account of the rapid succession of the electric impulses, there was not sufficient time between them for the electric action to cease entirely. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- If the stamp is of an inferior price to what the testator ought to have made use of, his succession is confiscated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Nor can we deal with the war of the Spanish Succession. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It will be of use to me to hear the succession of events again. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He became Emperor in succession to his father, Frederick III, in 1493, and married the duchy of Milan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In the first place, he shall receive honour in the army from his youthful comrades; every one of them in succession shall crown him. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- All were in succession pressed on her by her uncle, and all in succession she refused. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In succession are the chutes on which the crates of fenders are sent down from the fourth floor of the main factory building to the shipping platform. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty screams. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Hence the origin of the right of primogeniture, and of what is called lineal succession. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Of the same kind is the Dutch tax upon successions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Direct successions, or those of descendants to ascendants, pay no tax. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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