| 释义 |
antecedent美 [.æntɪ'sid(ə)nt] 英 [.æntɪ'siːd(ə)nt] - n.先行词；前事；前情；祖先
- adj.先前的
- 网络前因；先行的；前项
n. precursor,forerunner,ancestor,predecessor,forebear 1. | [c] 前事；前情a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it |
2. | [pl] 祖先；先人the people in sb's family who lived a long time ago |
3. | [c] 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。 |
adj. | 1. happening or existing before something else | n. | 1. something that happens or exists before something else 2. a word or phrase that a subsequent word refers to. "Mary" is the antecedent of "her" in the sentence "I'll give this to Mary if I see her." 3. the first part of a conditional proposition, which states the condition and is the p component in a proposition phrased "if p then q" 4. something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way 5. the members of your family who lived a long time ago 6. the antecedent of a word is the noun or phrase nearer the beginning of the sentence that it refers to. In the sentence “I threw the keys to him and he caught them,” “keys” is the antecedent of “them.” 1. something that happens or exists before something else 2. a word or phrase that a subsequent word refers to. "Mary" is the antecedent of "her" in the sentence "I'll give this to Mary if I see her." 3. the first part of a conditional proposition, which states the condition and is the p component in a proposition phrased "if p then q" 4. something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way 5. the members of your family who lived a long time ago 6. the antecedent of a word is the noun or phrase nearer the beginning of the sentence that it refers to. In the sentence “I threw the keys to him and he caught them,” “keys” is the antecedent of “them.” | np. | 2. the events or circumstances in somebody's past |
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