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单词 successive
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successivesuc‧ces‧sive /səkˈsesɪv/ ●○○ AWL adjective [only before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Successive governments have failed to tackle the problem of international debt.
  • Successive nights without sleep make any new parent feel ready to quit.
  • Jackson became the first batter since Babe Ruth to hit three successive home runs in a single game.
  • The food shortage is a result of three years of successive floods.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After this fourth successive Tory election victory, we think it would be better if a Labour Speaker had a turn.
  • Of the five successive Club finals in which Llanelli appeared from 1972-76, Jenkins played in only two.
  • That was his fifth successive birdie.
  • They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year, although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers.
  • They hit a good League run after the Cup knock-out, before two successive defeats checked their progress.
  • This is the second successive monthly fall, following the encouraging month-on-month improvements between December and March.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorhappening or doing something in a series
happening one after the other: · Successive nights without sleep make any new parent feel ready to quit.· Jackson became the first batter since Babe Ruth to hit three successive home runs in a single game.· Successive governments have failed to tackle the problem of international debt.
consecutive days, years etc come after one another, with no breaks in between: · The company has made a profit for seven consecutive years.· You must get a doctor's certificate if you're off work sick for more than three consecutive days.
happening immediately one after another in a series, especially in an unusually long series: · The temperatures was 40 degrees below zero for two weeks straight.· She is hoping to beat her personal record of 21 straight victories.
if something happens on a number of occasions, days, years etc in succession , it happens on each of those occasions, days, years etc, without a break: · She's won the championship four times in succession.· It's not advisable to plant wheat in the same field for more than two years in succession.
if a number of events happen one after the other or one after another , each one happens soon after the previous one: · One after another they got up and left the room.· He was so thirsty that he drank five glasses of water, one after the other.· She smoked nervously throughout the meeting, one cigarette after another.
done two or more times, one after another, without a break: · Last week I overslept three days in a row.· The Blazers have won 11 games in a row.
if you do something for the third time, fifth time etc running , you do it that number of times without a break: · This is the fourth time running you've been late.· Spender won the Cambridge Poetry Prize three years running.
two alternate actions, events, feelings etc are done in a fixed order, first one, then the other, then the first one again etc: · He worked alternate night and day shifts.· Italian cities have imposed alternate-day driving rules in an effort to reduce pollution.alternate Sundays/weekends etc (=first one Sunday or weekend, but not the next, then the next Sunday or weekend but not the next etc): · She visits her parents on alternate Sundays.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=generations that follow one another)· This medical textbook has been used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· Some strategic direction is essential, as successive governments have recognised.
NOUN
· Also included is a plot of the time of peak of body temperature on successive days.· Very small increases in quantity can then be introduced over successive days as long as the child is continuing to clear the plate.· Baldwin, supported by Sir Thomas Inskip, listened during three or four-hour sessions on each of the successive days.
· They suffered three successive defeats and it seemed their little party at the top was over.· Three successive defeats, the latest at Stirling, mean Hawick's worst League start.· The Gills were staring at a second successive defeat in the final with just seven minutes of extra time remaining.· They hit a good League run after the Cup knock-out, before two successive defeats checked their progress.· Bears have suffered five successive defeats, including a 47-43 home defeat by Peterborough last week.· Darren Bazeley scored the Watford goals for Blackburn's fourth successive defeat.· Rochdale's challenge is fading fast after a third successive defeat.
· It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs.· But it does set up the preconditions for perpetuation of the lack of reading skills within successive generations.· Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations.· Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students.· Cumulative contributions by successive generations of researchers create an increased and increasing understanding.· Knowledge is never static, but successive generations of nurses fail to implement the findings of research.· The bodies of successive generations transport them through time, so that a long-lost character may emerge in a distant descendant.· No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
· It has been the policy of successive governments since 1976 to move the balance of expenditure from hospital to community services.· Furthermore, successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control.· The redistribution of wealth, erratically pursued by successive governments since 1945, was markedly reversed in the 1980s.· It is the policies of successive governments to discipline the unemployed.· From the mid-1970s successive governments attempted to alleviate the crisis by curbing public expenditure.· Another is the failure of vision of successive governments, Labour and Conservative, since 1951.· Failure of institutions Attitudes of successive governments so far have only solidified the lock.· For this reason successive governments attempted to recruit people from their own ethnic groups and political affiliations into the army.
· These three operations are performed in the successive layers.· The surface could be built up to some extent by the application of thick and successive layers.· But in fact we know that the time-gaps between successive layers may have been very considerable.· By flaking off successive layers, the tree displays a bark of beige, cinnamon, lime green and slate blue.
· Starting with next Saturday's home match against Towcestrians they face three successive league matches, with Durham Cup ties in midweek.· Arsenal's second successive league defeat left them eight points behind the leaders and with a considerably inferior goal difference.· Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats.· This was Wimbledon's eighth successive league defeat.· Northern, seeking their eighth successive League win, were caught cold by Castleford.· Southampton should have registered a club record seventh successive League win but failed to turn their general superiority into goals.
· A series of confrontations between protesters and police escalated into violence, with the numbers swelling on each successive night.
· Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons, almost certainly a unique feat.· A dejected Hammam is prepared for the worst - sacrificing Premier League status and possibly even suffering successive seasons of relegation.· There were enough costumes here to keep the Paris Opera going for five successive seasons.· Now most of the paint had been peeled away by successive seasons of sun and rain.· This could be argued as promoting the crossing between different parent trees in successive seasons.· Turner surprised even himself by leading them to promotion in successive seasons.· It was a sound investment by Watford, because Wilkinson topped the club's scoring charts for three successive seasons.
· Moreover each kind has continued to be important; it is not a simple question of successive stages.· Salinger said the radar shows four successive stages of a blip moving toward the mark that represented Flight 800.· On a large canvas the successive stages of this incident were rendered in muddy greens and browns.· Not every piece of work a child undertakes needs to proceed through successive stages of drafting.· However, there will always be a pause of at least one minute between successive stages.
· With 18 successive victories behind them, Wigan should deliver.· It was also Castleford's fourth successive victory over neighbours Trinity.
· It is surrounded by states with internal conflicts and has received successive waves of refugees.· Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.
· Anglers Choice starlet Graham Metcalfe topped the proceedings for the second successive week and set a new five-hour best of 16-8-0.· For the second successive week professional Mike Farrell scored 145 not out, his team totalling 241-2.· Only one windsurf or Wayfarer week may be booked; for two successive weeks book the local sailing holiday.
· It is Liverpool's third successive win.· Derby, with six successive wins, could have both Blades and Goddard back after injury.· Emperor Charles bids to give Reading-based Chris Bennett his second successive win in the opening hunt race.· Boldon, on the other hand, have made a great start with three successive wins.· Only a six-year-old, Young Hustler is seeking his sixth successive win - and his eighth in all this season.· Meanwhile, the men virtually tied up their third successive win in the series in Swansea.· Then came the rarity of a second successive win, 3-2 at home to Torquay.
· It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues.
· What Lyle, Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had.· Bruce Maidment has won one of the major Thames races for the ninth successive year.· Here, low winter rainfall and dry summers for two successive years have caused record low water levels in wells.· The chair rotated annually and committee membership was limited to two successive years in order to avoid the dangers of elitism and institutionalisation.· Where necessary, the precision of estimates could be improved by using information from several successive years.· The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985.
· What Lyle, Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had.· The experiment was repeated in successive years, using two cars in 1953.· Here, low winter rainfall and dry summers for two successive years have caused record low water levels in wells.· The chair rotated annually and committee membership was limited to two successive years in order to avoid the dangers of elitism and institutionalisation.· Where necessary, the precision of estimates could be improved by using information from several successive years.· If possible the runs should not be placed in the same areas in successive years.· In successive years the outline had grown more pronounced and the current rainless spell exaggerated them yet more.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounsuccesssuccessionsuccessoradjectivesuccessfulunsuccessfulsuccessiveverbsucceedadverbsuccessfullyunsuccessfully
coming or following one after the other:  The team has had five successive victories. Successive governments have tried to deal with this issue.successively adverb
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