音标:[ˈpri:disesəz] ;
n. 前任( predecessor的复数形式 ); 前辈; (被取代的)原有事物; 前身
n. one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

[00:03.01]Unit 32 Reading and speaking [00:07.61]What didn't come to pass [00:10.20]by Vivienne Parry, former presenter [00:13.05]of Tomorrow's World [00:15.02]1 Forecasting what life is going to be [00:16.88]like years down the line is a dodgy busin

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Perfect Dark Zero looks set to be an Xbox 360 hit With the release in the UK of the Microsoft Xbox 360, the first shot has been fired in the long-awaited war between third generation games consoles . Gamers all over the country queued overnight for

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MARRAKECH, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Cameroonian Issa Hayatou was unanimously re-elected on Sunday president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a new term until 2017. Hayatou, 66, has run unopposed at the 35th ordinary general assembly of

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AS IT IS 2016-01-25 Scientists Find Most Ancient Evidence of War British scientists say they have found the oldest known evidence of war. Researchers discovered the remains of 27 people near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Scientists say they believe

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丹麦女孩电影讲述勇敢追寻真实生活 As Einar fades into Lili,the story then shifts from the romantic symbiosis of a passionate couple into the love story of two individuals, undergoing their own private journeys, and culminating with Lil

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South and North Korea have resumed traffic across their tense border to a jointly run industrial zone, renewing hopes for the project's viability. The move reflects a thaw in tensions after recent diplomatic moves between the two Koreas. 韩国和北韩

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19When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses, 2then set aside for yourselves three cities centrally located in the land the Lord your God is gi

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Not only can young Japanese women look forward to a longer life than their male peers, now they also make more money. Income for single women under 30 hit an average of 218,156 yen ($2,680) a month in 2009, edging above the 215,515 yen ($2,640) of th

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In a nation where people work more than anyone else in the industrialized world, the two-day weekend helps keep us sane. 工业化世界,大家都争相拼工作量,在这样的国家里,双休日有助我们保持理智。 No matter how exhaus

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Six famous Chinese athletes, including former basketball player Yao Ming, were appointed as ambassadors for China's bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday in Beijing. The six athletes, namely Yao Ming, former figure skating pair Shen Xue an

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I am disappointed that I cannot report any extravagances in his opinions on the old masters. 我感到很失望,不能写下他在评论一些老派画家时的谬论。 There is so much in his character which is strange that I feel it would comple

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The 2015 list of the greatest emerging technologies was recently published by Bernard Meyerson, chief innovation officer of IBM and chair of the World Economic Forums Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies. 最近IBM的首席创新官兼世界经济论坛

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Changing Roles of Public Education One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools. In the 1920'

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A second consideration is demography. 第二个考虑是人口。 A growing population creates a natural pyramid scheme. 不断增长的人口创造出一个天然的金字塔式的骗局。 Each cohort of participants will receive the money contribu

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学英语单词
231
absitively posolutely
all goes down gutter-lane
all published
assimilatory quotient
authentic cadence
be enthroned in the hearts
benzyl acrylate
biogenic graded bedding
brogue
buying group
career pathing(CP)
cartelisation
Castejon
cellular organelle
chemigroundwood
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
close epiphytotic disease
close inbreeding
Colima
Cornell-Coxe test
cross-blocking thinning
crosscurrent extraction
cultural resource management
curtilage
eccentric band
electrically actuated convertible top
electrolytic recording paper
Eurofascism
export commission
extraductal
family-owned company
filling block
fixed sole oven
Flensborg
forevermores
frettage
from the housetops
frontier traffic
further standard function
general chamber of commerce
get the drop on sb.
globall
help file name
hydrosoluble
illuminor
in spite of someone's nose
Inf.
inspection and acceptance
Jadelot's signs
kayans
left-hand helical gear
light button
ling hsing wu
low life
mailing address
make-up water pump
mandler
master-screw
mirandina corticola
modern game
MODSS
oil transformer
Ophiorrhiziphyllon macrobotryum
Oued Tinn
pattern plate bolster
perforation density
phonon-terminated laser
pre-digested
process queue
pulverizer
push poll
re-enabling
recanter
refresher driving
retaining possession
safety platform
saltern
savings certificate
sea crawfish
self tipping skip
semeterrie
Seminole Wars
settling
sheva
side-by-side reactions
sponge-iron
substitute t-ratio
substratum for waterproofing
symbol concatenation
Synotis longipes
time-switches
trait by treatment interaction
transfer data record
treble
true yellow
Tyrian purple
underdrain of filter
unfrilly
untuckered
W star
warlessness