I always liked Helen. She's not spectacular, but steady and dependable. Will you ever forget the way she took hold of that senior pageant committee and whipped it into shape after Mildred had made such a mess of it? How would she do here as a successor to me? I am filled with jealousy at the thought of a successor, but I suppose I must face it.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Who will obtain that throne? So asked each man in his heart. The courtiers and great men of the realm asked it with shuddering and despair. For, to whom should they now go to pay their homage and thus recommend themselves to favor in advance? Should they go to Biron, the Duke of Courland? Was it not possible that the dying empress had chosen him, her warmly-beloved favorite, her darling minion, as her successor to the throne of all the Russias? But how if she had not done so? If, instead, she had chosen her niece, the wife of Prince Anton Ulrich, of Brunswick, as her successor?英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
That no party might declare for him and invite him to Russia, her ministers advised the empress herself to send for him, and declare him her successor. Elizabeth followed this advice, and the young Duke Peter Ulrich of Holstein accepted her call. Declining the crown of Sweden, he professed the Greek religion in St. Petersburg, was clothed with the title of grand prince by Elizabeth, and declared her successor to the throne of the czars.英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
A few weeks later, a great and magnificent court festival was celebrated at the imperial palace at St. Petersburg. It was not enough that Elizabeth had chosen a successor in the person of Peter, Duke of Holstein, she must also give this successor a wife, that the throne might be fortified and assured by a numerous progeny.英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY [1] (p. An Account of Several Extraordinary Meteors or Lights in the Sky, by Dr. Edmund Halley. Trans. of Royal Society of London, vol. XXIX, pp. 159-162. Read before the Royal Society in the autumn of 1714.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-3》
The men who opposed the Normans left able successors--Owen Gwynedd followed his father, Griffith ap Conan; the Lord Rees followed his father Griffith ap Rees; and in Powys the sons of Bleddyn were followed by the castle builder Howel, and by the poet Owen Cyveiliog.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
You don't want it to be your successor that gets the credit.美剧 · 《Billions》
Rhoades won't make you head of Crim, but his successor may.美剧 · 《Billions》
Well, I thought the first thing I should do is to find a suitable successor.美剧 · 《House of Cards》