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　

IELTSGRETEM4TEM8

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
• 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。
• There are always antecedent causes.
  事情发生总会有前因。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。