剑桥词典a new smaller country formed after a larger country has been divided up （一個較大的國家分裂之後形成的）繼承國 Russia, Georgia and Ukraine are three of the successor states to the Soviet Union. 俄羅斯、格魯吉亞和烏尅蘭是囌聯的三個繼承國。 返回 successor state