antecedent

noun

/ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/

[countable] (formal) a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it前事；前情
antecedents
[plural] (formal) the people in somebody’s family who lived a long time ago祖先；先人 synonym ancestor, forebearTopics Family and relationshipsc2
[countable] (grammar语法) a word or phrase to which the following word, especially a pronoun, refers先行词；先行语
- 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。

词源late Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.

antecedent

adjective

/ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/

(formal)

previous先前的
- antecedent events先前的事件
词源late Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.

词汇	antecedent
释义	antecedent noun /ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/ /ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/ [countable] (formal) a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it前事；前情 antecedents [plural] (formal) the people in somebody’s family who lived a long time ago祖先；先人 synonym ancestor, forebearTopics Family and relationshipsc2 [countable] (grammar语法) a word or phrase to which the following word, especially a pronoun, refers先行词；先行语 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。词源late Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’. antecedent adjective /ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/ /ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/ (formal) previous先前的 antecedent events先前的事件词源late Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.
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