antecedent

noun

1. 前事；前情
   a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it
2. 祖先；先人
   the people in sb's family who lived a long time ago
3. 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.

1. 先前的
   previous
   1. antecedent events
      先前的事件

1. N-COUNT 前事；先例；前身
   An antecedent of 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。
2. ADJ 先前的；早先的
   An antecedent thing 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。
3. N-COUNT 祖先;先人;祖宗
   Your antecedents are your ancestors.
   1. ...a Frenchman with Irish antecedents.
      祖先为爱尔兰人的法国人

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。
2. It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
   允许考虑先前的法律。
3. 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。
4. An International Comparison on Inflation Antecedent Indicators and Forecasting Methods
   通货膨胀先行指标和预测方法的国际比较
5. Perceptual anticipation is an information processing course in which athletes can make use of partial information or antecedent information to predict the future events.
   知觉预测是运动员利用部分信息或先行信息预测未来事件的信息加工过程。
6. Development of Young Children's Antecedent Counterfactual Reasoning and Its Influencing Factors
   幼儿前提反事实推理的发展特点和影响因素
7. 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？
8. Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
   这些都是革命前的事了。
9. 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
10. References the commandline used to access the antecedent.
    参考用于访问先行规则的命令行。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. Under the same soil texture, as antecedent soil moisture increased, infiltration rate decreased and runoff intensity increased.
    结果表明：土壤质地对入渗和径流过程有较大影响。
15. Some people see the pioneering novelist Dorothy Richardson as an antecedent of the Irish writer James joyce.
    有些人把富于开拓性的小说家多萝西理查森视为爱尔兰作家詹姆斯乔伊斯的前驱。
16. 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。
17. There are always antecedent causes.
    事情发生总会有前因。
18. From three year antecedent the northern strong country is that empress, change calling to be robber's starting!
    从三年前北烈国那个皇后，改行当强盗开始！
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. Ruby is the antecedent and foundational technology; and Rails does, in some respects, present you with an altered, purpose-driven Ruby environment.
    Ruby是一项先行的基础技术；而在某些层面上，Rails则为你提供一个经过量体裁衣的、以目的驱动的Ruby环境。
23. 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。
24. 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
25. 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。
26. Used in front of the antecedent of a relative clause
    用於关系从句的先行词前
27. 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
28. Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
    物理过程的出现必然有其前提。
29. Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
    用作关系从句的先行词。
30. 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

noun

1. the referent of an anaphor

2. a preceding occurrence or cause or event

3. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

   Synonym:    ancestorascendantascendentroot

4. anything that precedes something similar in time
   1. phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience

   Synonym:    forerunner

adj

1. preceding in time or order