antecedent
英 [ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt]
美 [ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt]
n. 前事; 前情; 祖先; 先人; 先行词; 先行语
adj. 先前的
复数：antecedents
BNC.16104 / COCA.16403
牛津词典
noun
- 前事；前情
a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it - 祖先；先人
the people in sb's family who lived a long time ago - 先行词；先行语
a word or phrase to which the following word, especially a pronoun, refers- In ‘He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air’, ‘ball’ is the antecedent of ‘it’.
在He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air一句中，ball是it的先行词。
- In ‘He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air’, ‘ball’ is the antecedent of ‘it’.
adj.
- 先前的
previous- antecedent events
先前的事件
- antecedent events
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 前事；先例；前身
Anantecedentof something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.- We shall first look briefly at the historical antecedents of this theory.
我们首先应大致看一下该理论在历史上的前身。
- We shall first look briefly at the historical antecedents of this theory.
- ADJ 先前的；早先的
Anantecedentthing or event happened or existed before another related thing or event.- It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
允许考虑先前的法律。
- It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
- N-COUNT 祖先;先人;祖宗
Yourantecedentsare your ancestors.- ...a Frenchman with Irish antecedents.
祖先为爱尔兰人的法国人
- ...a Frenchman with Irish antecedents.
英英释义
noun
- the referent of an anaphor
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- anything that precedes something similar in time
- phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience
adj
- preceding in time or order
双语例句
- References the commandline used to access the antecedent.
参考用于访问先行规则的命令行。 - Antecedent of Trust in Online Purchase Intention Impacts Research
信任前因对网上购买意向的影响研究 - Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
物理过程的出现必然有其前提。 - Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
这些都是革命前的事了。 - Effect of Antecedent Moisture Content on Soil Structure Compacted by Machinery
前期含水量对机械压实土壤结构特征的影响 - What kind of relative clause do we normally use to modify a non-nominal antecedent?
我们通常使用哪种关系分句去修饰非名词性先行词？ - An International Comparison on Inflation Antecedent Indicators and Forecasting Methods
通货膨胀先行指标和预测方法的国际比较 - The user can then explore the lattice by using specified criteria, such as support and confidence bounds, or by placing restrictions on the antecedent sequence.
用户然后可以使用指定的条件（比如支持和置信界限），或在先前的序列上设置限制来分析该格子。 - Development of Young Children's Antecedent Counterfactual Reasoning and Its Influencing Factors
幼儿前提反事实推理的发展特点和影响因素 - You see the sentences look very similar but of course they are not because this one is taking the antecedent as the second premise and this one is taking the consequence as the second premise.
你们明白句子看起来非常像，但是他们不是，因为这个有先行词，作为第二个前提，这个用结论，作为第二个前提。