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

• Each of his predecessors has received it.
  他的每一位前任都获得了这种授权。
• You'd like kafka, one of my predecessors.
  那你会喜欢我的前辈卡夫卡。
• My predecessors set the course to modernize managerial and administrative procedures.
  我的各位前任制定了管理和行政程序现代化的方向。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most of my predecessors have taken office in July.
  我的大多数前任者在7月就职。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。