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1·The Endara government inherited an impossibly difficult situation from its predecessors.

恩达拉政府从其前任手里接过了一个极为困难的局面。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The committee disinterred a few old studies done by the predecessors to prove their point.

该委员会再现了由前任作的一些旧研究以证明他们的观点。

3·Mr Obama's team must recognise this or they, like their predecessors, will come to be seen as part of the problem, not the solution.

奥巴马先生的团队必须意识到这些，否则，他们就会像其前任将被视为问题而非解决方案的一部分。

4·All of our work will have to be built on what our predecessors have achieved.

我们现在的全部工作都是在前任的基础上开始的。

5·It may yet be that, over narrow questions of running the euro, the pair will strike a partial bargain, just as their predecessors did.

可能发生的情况是，在管理欧元这一单独的问题上，两位领导人会达成部分协议，就像他们前任所作的那样。

1·Their inhabitants, the Uros, preserve an old-school artificial island-making technique that their predecessors employed for centuries.

岛上的乌鲁斯人居民保存了一门老式的人工岛制造技术，这套技术他们的前辈们已经应用了几百年了。

2·They have set themselves just one day, April 2nd, to do what their predecessors failed to accomplish in weeks: tackle the crisis and consider ways to remake the rules of finance.

他们已经定下时间，只在4月2号这一天来完成他们前辈们在几周都没能完成的使命：解决经济危机，同时考虑重建金融业准则的方式。

3·While talking to the entrepreneurs, it dawned on me that the young generation is often lack of the sense of responsibility, which differentiated us from our predecessors who had strived so hard.

在我和企业家们沟通交流时，发现我们年轻一代普遍缺乏一种责任心，这是和一路奋斗过来的前辈们最大的区别。

4·Modern physicists, aware of the hubris of their 19th-century predecessors, have never thought their subject closed.

现代物理学家们深知19世纪前辈们的狂妄自大，从未想过自己的课题竟然真会结束。

5·In addition, Kumano said, younger women may finally be starting to reap the rewards of the trails blazed by older predecessors in white-collar jobs such as finance.

另外，熊野说，青年女性也许终于能够开始收获前辈们在金融等白领行业的耕耘成果了。