succession
/səkˈseʃən/noun
1
- a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other一系列, 一连串; 连续：
she had been secretary to a succession of board directors.
她曾经先后担任过数任董事会董事的秘书。
1.1
- Geology a group of strata representing a single chronological sequence【地质】（地层的）次序, 生长顺序。
2
- mass noun the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.（职位的）继任; （头衔、财产等的）继承：
the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession.
新国王在继承王位时已经上了年纪。
2.1
- the right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc.继承权; 继承顺序：
the succession to the Crown was disputed.
王位继承权引起了争议。
2.2
- Ecology the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached【生态】（植物或动物群落的）演替。比较SERE2.
短语
in quick（或 rapid）succession
- following one another at short intervals紧接的（地）。
in succession
- following one after the other without interruption连续的（地）, 接连的（地）：
she won the race for the second year in succession.
她连续赢得了第二年的赛跑冠军。
in succession to
- inheriting or elected to the place of继承; 接任; 当选：
he was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father.
他继承父业升为上议院议员。
settle the succession
- determine who shall succeed someone决定谁是接替者（或继承人）。
派生词
successional
adjective词源
Middle English （denoting legal transmission of an estate or the throne to another, also in the sense 'successors, heirs'）： from Old French, or from Latin successio（n-）, from the verb succedere （see SUCCEED）. The term in ecology dates from the mid 19th cent.