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　

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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
  1. 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。

adj.

• 先前的
  previous
  1. antecedent events
     先前的事件

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.
  1. 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。
• ADJ 先前的；早先的
  Anantecedentthing or event happened or existed before another related thing or event.
  1. It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
     允许考虑先前的法律。
• N-COUNT 祖先;先人;祖宗
  Yourantecedentsare your ancestors.
  1. ...a Frenchman with Irish antecedents.
     祖先为爱尔兰人的法国人

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)
  Synonym:ancestorascendantascendentroot
• anything that precedes something similar in time
  1. phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience
  Synonym:forerunner

adj

• preceding in time or order

双语例句

• Effects of antecedent water regimes on nitrous oxide emission from an arable soil
  前期不同水分状况对土壤氧化亚氮排放的影响
• Some people see the pioneering novelist Dorothy Richardson as an antecedent of the Irish writer James joyce.
  有些人把富于开拓性的小说家多萝西理查森视为爱尔兰作家詹姆斯乔伊斯的前驱。
• A nonlinear perturbation model ( NLPM) based on Artificial Neural Network ( ANN) and considering the antecedent precipitation index ( API) is proposed and developed.
  建立了一种考虑前期影响雨量和采用人工神经网络的非线性扰动模型。
• Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
  用作关系从句的先行词。
• The decision not to invite Joe was antecedent to his illness.
  不邀请乔的决定是在他生病之前决定的。
• Perceptual anticipation is an information processing course in which athletes can make use of partial information or antecedent information to predict the future events.
  知觉预测是运动员利用部分信息或先行信息预测未来事件的信息加工过程。
• Past research has shown that perceived value is an important antecedent for overall satisfaction and future purchase intention.
  以前的研究表明感知价值是总体满意度和将来购买意愿的主要前提。
• 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
• It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.
  换句话说，它不是，作为结果来自单一的先行的原因。
• 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？