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

• 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。
• You'd like kafka, one of my predecessors.
  那你会喜欢我的前辈卡夫卡。
• A revision can have multiple predecessors, too.
  一个修订也可以有多个前身。
• It was from this tradition, familiar to all predecessors, that Leonardo chose to depart.
  而达文西却选择背弃这个前人熟知的传统画法。
• The government inherited an impossible situation from its predecessors
  这届政府从前任那里接过了一个非常棘手的烂摊子。
• 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。
• Obviously, he drew upon all sorts of sources and predecessors but psychoanalysis is identified as Freud's creation.
  显然，他利用了各种资源，还总结了前人的成果，但精神分析依然被认为，是由弗洛伊德提出的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Each of his predecessors has received it.
  他的每一位前任都获得了这种授权。