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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 - Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
物理过程的出现必然有其前提。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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 - If we got an if then statement are we asserting an antecedent, an if clause or the consequent, Q the then clause, or are we saying if P then Q.
如果我们的论述中有如果，我们在主张先行词，假设条件句或者结果，然后从句，或者我们说如果P那么。 - 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。