In the 1980s, another group of Xerox scientists proposed an even more radical idea: the personal computer was destined, like its predecessor the mainframe computer, for obsolescence.

20世纪80年代，施乐研究中心另一组科学家们提出一种更为颠覆传统的理念：个人计算机将像其前身大型计算机一样淘汰。

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Like its predecessor,the modern bank must keep available, to make payment on demand, a considerableamount of currency and funds on deposit with the central bank.

正如其前身，现代银行必须保证可用性，要按需支付，要有相当数量的现金和在央行的保证金。

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Ext2fs is the DE facto standard filesystem for Linux, having ousted its predecessor, the Extended file system (or Extfs).

Ext2fs是Linux事实上的标准文件系统，它已经取代了它的前任—扩展文件系统(或Extfs)。

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Like the Obama Administration, Japan's new government ran hard against its predecessor's policies and put many of them under review when it took office.

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He says that plan is in line with traditional Conservative economic policy and at odds with the ideas of its predecessor, the Labor Party.

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The Obama administration shelved the isolation strategy of its predecessor and is trying dialogue with the Burmese military government to push it toward reform.

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The prosecution followed a year-long investigation by Natural Resources Wales, its predecessor the Environment Agency and South Wales Police.

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The James Hutton Institute, and its predecessor the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), have had blackcurrant breeding programmes since the 1960s.

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The Cecafa Challenge Cup, including its predecessor the Gossage Cup, is the oldest international competition on the African continent, having first been played in 1926.

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