antecedent

英 [ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt]

美 [ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt]

n. 前事; 前情; 祖先; 先人; 先行词; 先行语
adj. 先前的

复数：antecedents　

BNC.16104 / COCA.16403

牛津词典

noun

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

N-COUNT 前事；先例；前身
Anantecedentof 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。
ADJ 先前的；早先的
Anantecedentthing 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。
N-COUNT 祖先;先人;祖宗
Yourantecedentsare your ancestors.
1. ...a Frenchman with Irish antecedents.
  祖先为爱尔兰人的法国人

noun

the referent of an anaphor
a preceding occurrence or cause or event
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Synonym:ancestorascendantascendentroot
anything that precedes something similar in time
1. phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience
Synonym:forerunner

adj

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。
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。
Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
物理过程的出现必然有其前提。
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。
Used as the antecedent of a relative clause.
用作关系从句的先行词。
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
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
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？
There are always antecedent causes.
事情发生总会有前因。
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。