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Succession Things President Line Leader Quick N 英

英语单词 succession
英美音标 英 [sək'seʃn] 美 [sək'seʃn]
中文释义 n.连续;继承权;继位
英语例句 (1) He was late for school three times in succession.
(2) He retrieved his losses by betting on a succession of winners.
(3) The cost of living seems set to drop for the third month in succession.
(4) They will do anything to cheat him out of his succession.
(5) In succession to classicism and modernism,post modernism becomes the instrument for the shift of aesthetics.
中文例句 (1) 他连续三次上学迟到。
(2) 他下的赌注连续获胜才挽回了损失。
(3) 生活费用持续下降,眼看就快三个月了。
(4) 为了骗取他的继承权,他们什么都做的出来。
(5) 继古典主义、现代主义之后 ,后现代主义文化思潮成为美学话语转型有力工具。
vocabulary简明 Use the word succession to describe things that follow one another, as well as the order in which they do so. The Vice President is first in line of succession to be the president and the Secretary of State is fourth.
vocabulary扩展 Sometimes when a leader dies, the one who rules after him is determined not by law as in the U.S. or blood as in a monarchy but by the dying leader himself. Dictators often groom one of their sons for succession. Figuratively, you can use succession to indicate that one thing after another has come and gone without taking hold. The storefront has been home to a succession of businesses, all of which have failed. Fashions come and go in quick succession.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-SING 单数名词]一连串;一系列;连续 A succession of things of the same kind is a number of them that exist or happen one after the other.
  [oft N of n]
  • Adams took a succession of jobs which have stood him in good stead...

    亚当斯连着做过几份让他颇为受益的工作。

  • Scoring three goals in quick succession, he made it 10-8...

    在短短的时间内他连进三球,最终以 10 比 8 取胜。

  • Fraser Clyne has won the Scottish Road Running Championship for the third year in succession.

    弗雷泽·克莱因已经连续第三年获得苏格兰公路赛跑比赛冠军了。

2
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]继承;继任;继承权 Succession is the fact or right of being the next person to have an important job or position.
  [also N in pl]
  • She is now seventh in line of succession to the throne.

    她目前是王位的第七顺位继承人。

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