Predecessor

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• In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Before its birth generation after generation of the human family lived and died, and each was but little wiser, and but little better than its predecessor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• One must not think of a nomadic stage as a predecessor of a settled stage in human affairs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• This Helena will be an apple of discord, as was her predecessor of Troy. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• The name of Professor Dingo, my immediate predecessor, is one of European reputation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Each occasion surpassed its predecessor in the beauty of construction of the machines displayed and efficiency of their work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Kepler's genius was complementary to that of his predecessor. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• It was a much more stately and far less successful and enthusiastic expedition than its predecessor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• This was following up the work of his great predecessor Diocletian. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Its predecessor, the Median Empire, had endured for half a century. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• So, here was another earthquake of which I became the sport, before I had recovered from the shock of its predecessor! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• They have succeeded to the organisation which their predecessors established in this country. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• Each new generation would simply have repeated its predecessors' existence. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Bell took up immediately and energetically the idea that his two predecessors had dropped--and reached the goal. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• He was no early convert as his two predecessors had been; he had joined the Prophet for reasons of policy in fair give and take. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• He may have learnt this custom from his Iberian neighbours and predecessors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But who amongst us is optimistic enough to hope that the men who sit in the mighty positions are going to make a better show of themselves than their predecessors did over the trust problem? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• This time diagram again is on a larger scale than its predecessors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• At length, just before my departure, he told me he had, on better consideration, concluded not to mix his accounts with those of his predecessors. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.

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