succession

复数：successions

1. [U] 连续 the act of following one after the other
2. [S] 连续不断的人〔事物〕 a number of people or things following each other closely
3. [C] 继承,继任; 继承权 the act of succeeding to an office or position

• claim the succession要求继承权

• the endless succession连续不断
• the rightful succession合法继承权

in succession接连地，连续地

a succession of一连串；一系列

in quick succession紧接地

succession planning接班人计划；继任计划

vegetation succession植被演替；植被接续

ecological succession生态演替；生态替续

secondary succession次级演替；次生演替系列

1. He was late for school three times in succession.
   他连续三次上学迟到。
2. He retrieved his losses by betting on a succession of winners.
   他下的赌注连续获胜才挽回了损失。
3. The cost of living seems set to drop for the third month in succession.
   生活费用持续下降，眼看就快三个月了。
4. There was a dispute about the rightful succession to the throne.
   对于王位的合法继承权有过一场争论。
5. They will do anything to cheat him out of his succession.
   为了骗取他的继承权，他们什么都做的出来。
6. In succession to classicism and modernism,post modernism becomes the instrument for the shift of aesthetics.
   继古典主义、现代主义之后 ,后现代主义文化思潮成为美学话语转型有力工具。