I bought a book on the passing of spiritual authority from the apostles through successive popes and other bishops.
我买了一本关于神权自使徒传至教皇及其他主教的一脉相承的书。
He dropped the nails on the ground and successive clangs were heard.
他把钉子掉到了地上，听见了一连串的叮当声。
Repeating;with some degree of correspondence in successive trials or observations;( "a pattern of message traffic" ; "a pattern of hardware failures" ).
在连续的试验或观测中，有重复性且有某种程度相似性的信息。例如报文流量模式、硬件故障模式。
