单词
antecedent
英 [,æntɪ'siːd(ə)nt]
美['æntə'sidnt]
基本信息
- n. 前情；先行词；祖先
- adj. 先行的；前驱的；先前的
英英释意
- 1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- 2. a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- 3. anything that precedes something similar in time;
- "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
- 4. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
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