| 词汇 | predecessor |
| 释义 | predecessor noun[ C ] uk /ˈpriː.dɪˌses.ər/ us /ˈpred.ə.ses.ɚ/ C2 someone who had a job or a position before someone else, or something that comes before another thing in time or in a series: 前任，前辈;原有事物，前身 My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years.我的前任做这份工作做了12年。 The latest Ferrari is not only faster than its predecessors but also more comfortable.最新款的法拉利赛车不仅比老款的更快，而且更舒适。 Each new leader would blame his predecessor for all the evils of the past.每个新上任的领导人都会把过去所有的弊病全都归罪于他的前任。 In her speech, she paid a glowing tribute to her predecessor.她在发言中热烈赞扬了她的前任。 She spoke scathingly of the poor standard of work done by her predecessor.她严厉批评她前任在工作上的糟糕表现。 You need to learn from the mistakes of your predecessors. This system is much more efficient than its predecessor. Preceding and introducing announce antedate beat build (someone/something) up countdown curtain-raiser emcee forerunner introduce introduction introductory lead up to something lead-in preamble preface prefix preliminarily preliminary prelude reintroduce predecessor | American Dictionarypredecessor noun[ C ] us/ˈpred·əˌses·ər, ˈpri·də-/ a person who had a job or position before someone else, or a thing that comes before another in time or in a series: My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years. The latest model is faster and sleeker than its predecessors. predecessor | Business Englishpredecessor noun[ C ] uk /ˈpriːdɪˌsesər/ us /ˈpredəsesər/ the person who had a particular job or position before someone else: His predecessor had left him with many problems to address in the department. a machine, system, law, etc. that has been replaced by a new one: The new model retains all the advantages of its predecessor but offers five times the speed. Examples of predecessorpredecessor We now point out some useful properties of the predecessor relation, which follow directly from the definition. One generation later, young businessmen with a higher level of education than their predecessors have decided to enter the political arena themselves. But a series of actions, each insignificantly different from its predecessor, can take us from one to the other. We will also introduce a procedure to merge vertices with the same predecessors of a -graph system. These presidents dismantled the elements of the rule of law that had been constructed during the divided government of their predecessors. The continuing organisations retained many features of their predecessors. It is not necessary that it is a predecessor of the leaf. Children who have been brought up in an age of television are not as ready to sit in rows conjugating irregular verbs as their predecessors. Although exhibiting a strongly contrasting, lyrical expressive character, this section is linked with its predecessor in the use of similar developmental procedures and formal characteristics. According to the extractive foraging model, each new adaptive radiation of hominids has maintained and elaborated on the extractive technologies of its predecessors. This innovation has yielded models that outperform their predecessors in terms of matching several business cycle features. They knew that they were, if not more intellectually honest, then certainly more intellectually shrewd than their predecessors. This caricature was buttressed by the reflections of many major early modern philosophers on the merits of their predecessors. Yet an absence of piety was certainly not unknown among their old-regime predecessors. Each new instalment in the series (through volume 7) has equalled or improved upon the sales figures of its predecessor. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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