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successive adj.继承的,连续的 Successive is a word that comes up often when you're looking at the history of something. Back in the 1960s, eight successive Boston Celtics teams won the NBA championship. In school, if you do very well, you could get an A in three successive math classes. Even though successive has the word success in it, it's not necessarily a good thing: you could also miss ten successive free throws. ★★☆☆☆ 2015.6

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[sək'sesiv] Successive is a word for things (or people) that follow each other in time. If three presidents in a row were over sixty, you could say "Three successive presidents were over sixty." Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. 1[ADJ 形容词]连续的；接连的；相继的 Successive means happening or existing one after another without a break. Jackson was the winner for a second successive year...杰克逊已经是连续第二年获胜了。Britain was suffering from the failure of successive governments to co-ordinate a national transport policy.接连几届政府都没能协调出一个全国性的交通运输政策，英国因此而深受其苦。successivelyHe successively won the British, European and World championships.他一口气拿下了英国、欧洲和世界冠军。...the successively higher levels of unemployment we have endured during the past three recessions.在过去三次大萧条中我们所经历的持续上涨的失业率

英语单词	successive
英美音标	[sək'sesiv]
中文释义	adj.继承的,连续的
vocab简明	Successive is a word for things (or people) that follow each other in time. If three presidents in a row were over sixty, you could say "Three successive presidents were over sixty."
vocab扩展	Successive is a word that comes up often when you're looking at the history of something. Back in the 1960s, eight successive Boston Celtics teams won the NBA championship. In school, if you do very well, you could get an A in three successive math classes. Even though successive has the word success in it, it's not necessarily a good thing: you could also miss ten successive free throws.
真题原句	Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.
柯林斯星级	★★☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ 形容词]连续的；接连的；相继的 Successive means happening or existing one after another without a break. Jackson was the winner for a second successive year... 杰克逊已经是连续第二年获胜了。 Britain was suffering from the failure of successive governments to co-ordinate a national transport policy. 接连几届政府都没能协调出一个全国性的交通运输政策，英国因此而深受其苦。 successively He successively won the British, European and World championships. 他一口气拿下了英国、欧洲和世界冠军。 ...the successively higher levels of unemployment we have endured during the past three recessions. 在过去三次大萧条中我们所经历的持续上涨的失业率
来源	2015.6

Successive Word Presidents Won Ly Sək'sesiv Adj.继承的,连续的 Things