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
- Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
物理过程的出现必然有其前提。 - A nonlinear perturbation model ( NLPM) based on Artificial Neural Network ( ANN) and considering the antecedent precipitation index ( API) is proposed and developed.
建立了一种考虑前期影响雨量和采用人工神经网络的非线性扰动模型。 - 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 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - Past research has shown that perceived value is an important antecedent for overall satisfaction and future purchase intention.
以前的研究表明感知价值是总体满意度和将来购买意愿的主要前提。 - 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