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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Under the same soil texture, as antecedent soil moisture increased, infiltration rate decreased and runoff intensity increased.
结果表明：土壤质地对入渗和径流过程有较大影响。 - 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。 - Used in front of the antecedent of a relative clause
用於关系从句的先行词前 - 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。 - 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 - Some people see the pioneering novelist Dorothy Richardson as an antecedent of the Irish writer James joyce.
有些人把富于开拓性的小说家多萝西理查森视为爱尔兰作家詹姆斯乔伊斯的前驱。 - From three year antecedent the northern strong country is that empress, change calling to be robber's starting!
从三年前北烈国那个皇后，改行当强盗开始！