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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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？ - 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 - 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。 - Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
物理过程的出现必然有其前提。