predecessors

英 [ˈpriːdɪsɛsəz]

美 [ˈprɛdəˌsɛsərz]

n.  前任; 原先的东西; 被替代的事物
predecessor的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 前任；前辈
  Yourpredecessoris the person who had your job before you.
  1. He maintained that he learned everything he knew from his predecessor Kenneth Sisam.
     他坚称他所知道的一切都获自前任肯尼思·赛瑟姆。
• N-COUNT （物件、机器的）前身
  Thepredecessorof an object or machine is the object or machine that came before it in a sequence or process of development.
  1. The car is some 40mm shorter than its predecessor.
     这辆轿车比原先的车型短了约40毫米。

双语例句

• This leaves the Prime Minister, like his predecessors, earnestly trying to talk down wages.
  这就使得首相和他的前任们一样，急于削减工资。
• It would be unfair to suggest that he will be no more effective than his predecessors
  暗示他不会比前任们更有作为是不公平的。
• She hailed her predecessors, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl, for uniting Europe and Germany.
  她称赞她的前辈，康拉德阿登纳和赫尔穆特科尔，团结了欧洲和德国。
• It's about a relationship to predecessors who are seen as too similar.
  也是因为和前辈的关系，他们看太像了。
• A revision can have multiple predecessors, too.
  一个修订也可以有多个前身。
• I have been reasonably fortunate rarely to receive public "advice" from my predecessors.
  可以说我几乎没有从我的前任那得到任何建议，这是幸运的。
• His predecessors had been supine.
  他的前任们采取了听之任之的态度。
• Her reticence was in sharp contrast to the glamour and star status of her predecessors
  她的寡言少语和前任们的光鲜亮丽、明星范儿十足形成了鲜明的对比。
• You, whose predecessors scored initial success in astronomical research, have acquired a greater accomplishment in this respect.
  你，天文研究得分初步成功的前任者，在这方面已经取得更大的成就。
• But there are still reasons for thinking that the new declinism may be more soundly based than its predecessors.
  但我们仍有理由认为，新的衰落主义可能建立在比之前版本更为健全的基础上。