| 单词 | successive |
| 释义 | successive (once / 323 pages) adj 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." 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. WORD FAMILYsuccessive: successively, successiveness+/succeed: succeeded, succeeder, succeeding, succeeds, succession, successive, successor/succeeder: succeeders/succeeding: succeedingly/succession: successions/successor: successors USAGE EXAMPLESScotland's Anderson, 46, bidding to become only the third man to win three successive titles, broke to lead 2-1. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The Niners became the first team in nearly four decades to follow coaches in successive seasons after only one-year tenures. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Defoe’s equalizer prevented Sunderland slumping to a third successive loss. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) adj in regular succession without gaps Syn consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial ordered having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule |
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