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/ˈpredəsesər/ · /ˈpriːdəsesə/
A predecessor is the person who had a job, role, or position before the person who has it now — like the mayor before the current mayor. It can also mean an earlier version of something, like an older model of a phone that came before the one you have now.
前任（某職位的上一任）；前身（某事物較舊的版本）
複數 predecessors
組成pre- (before) + decessor (from Latin, related to 'going' or 'leaving')
同家族的字
- successorthe opposite word — the person or thing that comes after, sharing the same root meaning 'to go'
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
predecessornoun/ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsə(ɹ)/
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One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
- I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
- "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.
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A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
- No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
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mathematicssciencesA vertex having a directed path to another vertex
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。