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
- 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。 - 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? - 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。 - Used in front of the antecedent of a relative clause
用於关系从句的先行词前 - 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。 - This type of behavior is called customer citizenship behavior, whose prime antecedent is customer justice perception.
其中,旅行社顾客感知的服务公平性是影响顾客公民行为的根本因素。 - Up to now, most turnover study focuses on antecedent variables of turnover intention, but few on accommodating variables of actual turnover behavior, study for expert and systemic turnover management is much fewer.
就目前研究而言,大部分的研究都是集中在离职意向的影响因素方面,而对实际离职行为调节因素方面的研究相对要少些,专门、系统的离职管理研究理论更少。 - 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。 - Under the same soil texture, as antecedent soil moisture increased, infiltration rate decreased and runoff intensity increased.
结果表明:土壤质地对入渗和径流过程有较大影响。 - 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