?have successively held the posts;have served successively as ?successive;allprevious 他～連長(zhǎng)、營(yíng)長(zhǎng)、團(tuán)長(zhǎng)、師長(zhǎng)等職。He successively held the posts of company,battalion,regiment and division commander./幾乎所有的～大使都是翻譯出身。Almost all the previous ambassadors worked as inter-preters.