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单词 successor
释义
successor
noun[C]
uk
/səkˈses.ər/us
/səkˈses.ɚ/
C1
someone or something that comes after anotherpersonor thing:
继任者，接替者；继承人；接替的事物
Theuniversityisseekinga successortoitsvicechancellor, whoretiresthisspring.大学在寻找一位继任者，接替将于今年春天退休的校长。
Thisrangeofcomputersis veryfast, buttheirsuccessors will beevenfaster.这个系列的电脑速度很快，但它的换代产品速度会更快。
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  • Traditionally, thepresidentdesignateshis or her successor.
  • Itremainsto beseenwhom thechairmanwillanointas his successor.
  • Thehuntis on for a successor toSirJames Gordon.
  • Hisnamewasmootedas apossiblesuccessor.
  • Theformerleadernow has towatchhis successorunpickingmuch of what hestrivedso hard toachieve.
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Before, after and already
(Definition ofsuccessorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

successor| American Dictionary

successor
noun[C]
us
/səkˈses·ər/
someone or something thatfollowsandtakesthejob,place, orpositionthat washeldby another:
Thecompanywillannouncetheappointmentof a successor toitsretiringchairmanat the nextboardmeeting.
(Definition ofsuccessorfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

successor| Business English

successor
noun[C]
uk
/səkˈsesər/us
someone or something that comes after anotherpersonor thing:
successor to sb/sthShe has beenappointedsuccessor to theretiringchiefexecutive.
Network Rail is the successor to Railtrack andrunslinesandsignalling.
(Definition ofsuccessorfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsuccessor

successor
Traversal is performed by selecting a node from the task pool, visiting that node, and then adding itssuccessornodes to the pool.
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The leftsuccessornode is visited next, revealing three additional nodes.
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In spite of not formally owning the land, crown tenants enjoyed a lifetime right of occupation and the possibility to choose asuccessor.
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Statistical mechanics is thesuccessortheory to thermodynamics, the science of work and heat.
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He retired on pension in 1899, handing over an efficient service to his whitesuccessor.
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Introspective and unimaginative, the sun king's two successors did nothing to arrest this process.
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It would shape the very contours of control and influence in the dividedsuccessorstates.
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As a result, processes on the left path are excluded from thesuccessorset of the warm rolling component, and the right path is chosen.
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Once "the people have spoken," the successor's authority is established and any further contest is illegitimate.
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It failed in its own terms, through his successors' inability to maintain the constant attendance of the nobility upon the monarch.
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But this time they should be more freely usable in the sense that thesuccessorstates can be described by multiple applications of them.
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Upon that element his successors have now been signally defeated.
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Thus, the ability of the president to hand-pick hissuccessorwas considerably diminished, as his most of his cabinet members were not in the running.
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The image we are presented with is one ofsuccessorgenerations ' moving across ' historical time.
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Early platforms are far more general than their successors, in some instances having a content too insubstantial to analyse.
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Collocationswithsuccessor

successor

These are words often used in combination withsuccessor.

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immediate successor
Furthermore, since self-concatenation is value increasing, each element in the sequence is better than itsimmediatesuccessor.
From theCambridge English Corpus
obvious successor
This ship will be something over 10,000 tons: and an obvious successor to the cruiser.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
possible successor
Obviously the cost of apossiblesuccessorvaries between the options and is a factor in choosing between them.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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