predecessors

例句:

• The government inherited an impossible situation from its predecessors.
  这届政府从前任那里接过了一个非常棘手的烂摊子。
  
• Will new plan be any more acceptable than its predecessors?
  新计划比原先的计划更能令人满意吗？
  来自《权威词典》
• No species arises in a single step without predecessors.
  来自SA
• The keenest detector of the errors of his predecessors.
  来自J. S. Mill
• The new government set about dismantling their predecessors'legislation.
  新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律.
  
• Both are seen as the reincarnations of their predecessors.
  来自BBC