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

• 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。
• 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！
• 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
• 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。
• Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
  用作关系从句的先行词。
• Effects of antecedent water regimes on nitrous oxide emission from an arable soil
  前期不同水分状况对土壤氧化亚氮排放的影响
• 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。
• Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
  这些都是革命前的事了。
• 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
• 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。