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

• 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 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 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。
• Like these predecessors, the key will be the success that participants have in combining content with platforms.
  像科技和媒体业一样，关键是参与者能成功将内容与平台结合起来。
• 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。
• You'd like kafka, one of my predecessors.
  那你会喜欢我的前辈卡夫卡。
• 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。
• A revision can have multiple predecessors, too.
  一个修订也可以有多个前身。
• 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。
• 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。