successive
adjective /səkˈsesɪv/
/səkˈsesɪv/
[only before noun]- following immediately one after the other
synonym consecutive连续的;接连的;相继的 - This was their fourth successive win.
这是他们连续第四次获胜。 - Successive governments have tried to tackle the problem.
历届政府都试图解决这个问题。 - There has been low rainfall for two successive years.
连续两年降雨量很少。
- She grew less confident with every successive defeat.
随着一次又一次的失败,她变得越来越不自信。 - The country experienced successive waves of invasion.
这个国家经历了一波又一波的侵略。 - The road remained closed for the third successive day.
第三天这条路仍然继续封闭。 - The text has been used by successive generations of medical students.
这篇课文被一代又一代的医学生所使用。
Collocations DictionarySuccessive is used with these nouns:- defeat
- draw
- generation
- …
词源late Middle English: from medieval Latin successivus, from success- ‘followed closely’, from the verb succedere ‘come close after’, from sub- ‘close to’ + cedere ‘go’. - This was their fourth successive win.