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

• 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。
• 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。
• His predecessors had been supine.
  他的前任们采取了听之任之的态度。
• 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。
• Each of his predecessors has received it.
  他的每一位前任都获得了这种授权。
• A revision can have multiple predecessors, too.
  一个修订也可以有多个前身。
• 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 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 have survived your predecessors, and I will survive you.
  你的前身都杀不了我，你也一样！
• 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。