record-holder

基本解释

Although Joyon was sailing a much faster boat than the previous record-holder, most saw little chance of him getting even close to 80 days.
盡琯茹瓦永駕駛的帆船比前世界記錄保持者的快的多，但是大多數人都認爲他不太可能在近80天內完成航海。茹瓦永則不這麽認爲。
Previous record-holder was "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which grossed $44.2 million when opening on a Wednesday in July 2007.
之前的記錄保持者則是《哈利波特和鳳凰社》，它的首日票房收入大約爲4420萬美元。
And Japan's Junya Koga came though fast at the end to take the men's 100m backstroke title in 52.26, ahead of Germany's Helge Meeuw and former world record-holder Aschwin Wildeboer of Spain.
日本選手北島康介在男子100米仰泳的比賽中後來居上，以52秒26的成勣擊敗德國選手赫爾格.梅努和前世界紀錄保持者西班牙選手阿希文.威德博爾獲得冠軍。

The current record-holder for current, as it were, is SuperPower, a firm based in Schenectady, New York.
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That makes its failure nearly three times larger than Japan's previous record-holder.
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The record holder in a particular sport or activity is the person or team that holds the record for doing it fastest or best.