| 单词 | succession |
| 释义 | succession (once / 234 pages) n 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. 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. WORD FAMILYsuccession: successions+/succeed: succeeded, succeeder, succeeding, succeeds, succession, successive, successor/succeeder: succeeders/succeeding: succeedingly/successive: successively, successiveness/successor: successors USAGE EXAMPLESOne person called Lynn’s succession to replace Ryan- fired earlier in the week by Buffalo - as being “the working plan.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) One of those waiting on the touchline to join the succession race is football star George Weah. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) If we follow this scenario to its conclusion, then sometime in the early fifteen hundreds several epidemics of disease probably swept T1 in close succession. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n acquisition of property by descent or by will Syn|Hyper taking over acquisition the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something 2n a group of people or things arranged or following in order a succession of stalls offering soft drinks a succession of failures Hypo|Hyper cascade a succession of stages or operations or processes or units paradean extended (often showy) succession of persons or things run, streakan unbroken series of events losing streaka streak of losses winning streaka streak of wins series similar things placed in order or happening one after another 3n the action of following in order Syn|Hypo|Hyper sequence chess opening, opening a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess alternationsuccessive change from one thing or state to another and back again order, ordering the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement 4n a following of one thing after another in time Syn|Hypo|Hyper chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness pelting, rain anything happening rapidly or in quick successive rotationa planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.) rowa continuous chronological succession without an interruption runan unbroken chronological sequence temporal arrangement, temporal order arrangement of events in time 5n (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established Syn|Hyper ecological succession action, activity, natural action, natural process a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) |
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