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

• 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。
• References the commandline used to access the antecedent.
  参考用于访问先行规则的命令行。
• Used in front of the antecedent of a relative clause
  用於关系从句的先行词前
• It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
  允许考虑先前的法律。
• Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
  用作关系从句的先行词。
• Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
  这些都是革命前的事了。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。