Priority

(noun.) preceding in time.

编辑:马克斯

• It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Both houses are your home, my dear, said he, but the older Bleak House claims priority. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Furnace and Ashton, of Hull, to priority in building the first steam-vessel that was worked in England. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Like most all valuable inventions, Mr. Bessemer’s claim to priority for the invention was contested. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In such cases only one patent can be issued, and that to the inventor who on the taking of testimony shows priority in date of invention. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This claim to priority was supported by the publication of a description of the machine, and certificate of its use, in the _Union_, a newspaper published at Lexington, Va. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is that of PRIORITY Of time in the cause before the effect. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Then, Hermione, assuming priority of speech, resumed as if wearily: 'To what does he want you to submit? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And so great was the activity and the number of inventors that he is a daring man who would now decide priority between them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Priority was claimed by two firms of spectacle-makers in Middelburg, Holland, namely, Zacharias, miscal led Jansen, and Lippershey. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Priority is a poor recommendation in a husband if he has got no other. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

校对:迈克尔