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
- 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? - It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
允许考虑先前的法律。 - Effect of Antecedent Dry Period on Water Quality of Urban Storm Runoff Pollution
前期晴天时间对城市降雨径流污染水质的影响 - 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 - Antecedent of Trust in Online Purchase Intention Impacts Research
信任前因对网上购买意向的影响研究 - 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。 - 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。 - Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
用作关系从句的先行词。 - 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。 - 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