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。 - 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? - Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
用作关系从句的先行词。 - It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
允许考虑先前的法律。 - 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 - If we got an if then statement are we asserting an antecedent, an if clause or the consequent, Q the then clause, or are we saying if P then Q.
如果我们的论述中有如果,我们在主张先行词,假设条件句或者结果,然后从句,或者我们说如果P那么。 - 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。 - 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 coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent.
反身代词和它的先行词间的同一性关系。 - 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