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

• 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。
• But Stringer, and his predecessors, have been making that same promise for years.
  但是纵梁和他的前辈，做同样诺言多年来。
• This paper reviews what predecessors have done on this issue.
  本文拟就前人在此问题上的研究做一个述评。
• 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。
• Most of my predecessors have taken office in July.
  我的大多数前任者在7月就职。
• A revision can have multiple predecessors, too.
  一个修订也可以有多个前身。
• I would like to recognize Dr Mahler in the audience as one of my predecessors.
  我要承认在坐的马勒博士即是我的前辈之一。
• 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。
• In this respect, he was continuing in the tradition of his predecessors.
  他在这方面继承了几位前任的传统。
• I also found the new bb10 browser much faster than its predecessors.
  此外，我发现新的bb10浏览器比之前的版本快很多。