| 词汇 | antecedent |
| 释义 | antecedentWord family verbantecedenounantecedenceadjectiveantecedentadverbantecedently Linguistics, Grammar an·te·ced·ent /ˌæntəˈsiːdənt/ noun [countableC] 1 formalBEFORE an event, organization, or thing that is similar to the one you have mentioned but existed earlier 先例 historical antecedents 历史先例 2. antecedents [plural] formalFAMILY the people in your family who lived a long time ago 祖先 SYN ancestors 3. SL technical a word, phrase, or sentence that is represented by another word, for example a pronoun 先行语〔由代词等代替的单词、短语或句子〕 —antecedent adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus antecedent• The Byrds are seen as an antecedent of bands like R.E.M.• Education business partnerships, though recent in their current form, have antecedents which it would be foolish to ignore.• Once the antecedents to their overdrinking are established, clients can begin to make systematic changes in these situational factors.• There were three distinctive characteristics about the archosaurs that paleontologists discovered marked them off from their antecedents. (1300-1400) Latin present participle of antecedere, from ante- ( → ANTE-) + cedere “to go” |
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