Predecessor

(noun.) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office).

手打:胡里奥

• In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Before its birth generation after generation of the human family lived and died, and each was but little wiser, and but little better than its predecessor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One must not think of a nomadic stage as a predecessor of a settled stage in human affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• This Helena will be an apple of discord, as was her predecessor of Troy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The name of Professor Dingo, my immediate predecessor, is one of European reputation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Each occasion surpassed its predecessor in the beauty of construction of the machines displayed and efficiency of their work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Kepler's genius was complementary to that of his predecessor. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was a much more stately and far less successful and enthusiastic expedition than its predecessor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This was following up the work of his great predecessor Diocletian. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Its predecessor, the Median Empire, had endured for half a century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So, here was another earthquake of which I became the sport, before I had recovered from the shock of its predecessor! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They have succeeded to the organisation which their predecessors established in this country. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Each new generation would simply have repeated its predecessors' existence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Bell took up immediately and energetically the idea that his two predecessors had dropped--and reached the goal. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was no early convert as his two predecessors had been; he had joined the Prophet for reasons of policy in fair give and take. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He may have learnt this custom from his Iberian neighbours and predecessors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But who amongst us is optimistic enough to hope that the men who sit in the mighty positions are going to make a better show of themselves than their predecessors did over the trust problem? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This time diagram again is on a larger scale than its predecessors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At length, just before my departure, he told me he had, on better consideration, concluded not to mix his accounts with those of his predecessors. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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