| 单词 | antecedent |
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| 释义 | Related topics: Linguistics, Grammaran·te·ced·ent /ˌæntəˈsiːdənt/ noun [countable] 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 ancestors3. 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 adjectiveExamples from the Corpusantecedent• 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.Origin antecedent (1300-1400) Latin present participle of antecedere, from ante- ( → ANTE-) + cedere “to go”an·te·ced·ent nounChineseSyllable similar thing that or organization, event, is Corpus an |
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