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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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 - There are always antecedent causes.
事情发生总会有前因。 - 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 - Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
这些都是革命前的事了。 - Ruby is the antecedent and foundational technology; and Rails does, in some respects, present you with an altered, purpose-driven Ruby environment.
Ruby是一项先行的基础技术;而在某些层面上,Rails则为你提供一个经过量体裁衣的、以目的驱动的Ruby环境。 - 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。