詞匯釋義：

接班人

successor

常用短語：

任命接班人 designate successor
選拔接班人 select successor

例句：

South Korea's main spy agency believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has designated his third and youngest son, Jong Un, as his successor, a lawmaker said Tuesday.

星期二，一位立法者稱，朝鮮的主要情報委員會認為，朝鮮領導人金正日已經指定他的三兒子金正云為接班人。

North Korea taps 26-year-old son as successor.

朝鮮領導人指定26歲的兒子為繼承人。

North Korean Leader Chooses Successor Amid Signs of More Brinkmanship.
朝鮮領導人在更加奉行邊緣政策的狀態中選擇了接班人。

詞匯知識：

Successor來源于succeed。succeed 1. 成功 2. 繼承，接下去 Bush succeeded Clinton as the president of US.布什繼承了美國總統克林頓的職位，所以Bush is Clinton’s successor，布什是克林頓的繼承人。例如任命繼承人可以說，appoint a successor。計算機術語中，successor為“后繼的”意思，引申詞有successor note“后繼節點，子節點”，successor function“后繼函數”。Successor的擴展詞有successive“連續的”，succor“援手”等。