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

• 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。
• 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？
• 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
• There are always antecedent causes.
  事情发生总会有前因。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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