Precedence

(noun.) status established in order of importance or urgency; '...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals'; 'national independence takes priority over class struggle'.

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• Mr. Lowten disappeared with a grin, and immediately returned ushering in the firm, in due form of precedence--Dodson first, and Fogg afterwards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Neither would he ever consent, even at his brother's request, to be helped to any place before her, or to take precedence of her in anything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• How pleased Mrs. Bute would have been: and ma tante if I had taken precedence of her! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This is Cedric's clown, who fought so manful a skirmish with Isaac of York about a question of precedence. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Shall my left hand dispute for precedence with my right? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the confusion occasioned by their angry demands for precedence, it was long before we could discover the secret meaning of this strange scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yet she could not help feeling rather resentful at the way in which Gudrun and Gerald should assume a right over her, a precedence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Willingly would I have kept mine also, but Graham's desire must take precedence of my own; I accompanied him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Celia confessed it was nicer to be Lady than Mrs., and that Dodo never minded about precedence if she could have her own way. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Elliot's contrivance, to which Sir David Brewster is inclined to give precedence in point of date, was very inferior in its effects to the reflecting Stereoscope. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It was of course amongst these that the most frequent disputes for precedence occurred. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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