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　

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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

• 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。
• Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
  用作关系从句的先行词。
• There are always antecedent causes.
  事情发生总会有前因。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
  这些都是革命前的事了。
• 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
• It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
  允许考虑先前的法律。
• 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。