succession

/sәk'seʃәn/

📖 中文释义

复数 successions

The question, though, remains: What happens next? Lee Kuan Yew dealt with the question of succession by deferring it.
但问题依然是：今后会发生什么？李光耀通过延缓解决了继任者问题。他的儿子还需要给出答案。
Elections with universal suffrage, combined with a relatively free press, meant that the succession became a public issue, debated in the media and by academics for months as Sheikh Jaber was dying.
Mubarak’s succession is being conducted in an especially sophisticated manner. His son’s ascension, unlike that of Bashar on the eve of his father’s death, is anything but settled.

📘 English Definition（英文释义）

n. a group of people or things arranged or following in order
n. the action of following in order
n. (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
n. acquisition of property by descent or by will