predecessor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 前任，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (He was proud that this was fifty more than his predecessor had required.)
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps he got it as his scientific predecessor in the same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The irrigation of these lands in the Zaraisky province had been initiated by the predecessor of Alexey Alexandrovitch's predecessor.
-- Moreover, this new head had the further reputation of being a bear in his manners, and was, according to all reports, a man of a class in all respects the opposite of that to which his predecessor had belonged, and to which Stepan Arkadyevitch had hitherto belonged himself.
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