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

• There are always antecedent causes.
  事情发生总会有前因。
• 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。
• Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
  物理过程的出现必然有其前提。
• Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
  这些都是革命前的事了。
• 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
• Used in front of the antecedent of a relative clause
  用於关系从句的先行词前
• 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
• 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。
• 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。